Key Features

• Filled with useful recipes that may train you ways to take advantage of the main complicated good points of the Git system
• Improve your productiveness through studying to paintings speedier, extra successfully, and with extra confidence
• Discover suggestions and tips that may exhibit you while and the way to take advantage of the complicated good points of Git

Book Description

Starting with the Git facts version, you are going to find out how Git shops documents and the way it appears at commits. you'll then learn the way you could get over errors; from committing at the unsuitable department to improving misplaced commits/files. subsequent, you will find how one can strength rebase on a few branches and use typical Git merge on different branches. additionally, you will methods to extract info from the repository.

As you move via this ebook, you'll find out how you could automate the standard Git tactics by using the hook approach outfitted into Git. The booklet additionally covers complex repository administration, together with assorted ideas to rewrite the background of a Git repository. eventually, you will find how one can paintings offline with Git, the right way to music what's going behind the curtain, and the way to take advantage of the stash for various purposes.

What you are going to learn

• Understand the Git facts version and the way you could navigate the database with easy commands
• Learn how one can recuperate misplaced commits/files
• Discover how one can strength rebase on a few branches and use commonplace Git merge on different branches
• Extract metadata from a Git repository
• Familiarize your self with Git notes
• Discover how one can paintings offline with Git
• Debug with Git and use a variety of ideas to discover the defective commit

About the Authors

Aske Olsson has labored for Nokia for six years, the place he used to be one of many best forces in the back of advanced software transformation and renewal initiatives. between them was once a large adoption of Git SCM, Gerrit Code assessment, and Jenkins CI. presently, Aske works at Schantz, an organization constructing complicated IT recommendations for the monetary quarter. He develops and continues their non-stop supply pipeline.

Rasmus Voss focuses on non-stop integration, software program freeing, and strategy automation. His large wisdom on those parts has been equipped through a 10-year occupation in Nokia cellphones in Copenhagen, Denmark and Beijing, China, the place he began optimizing autotesting for the sequence 30 platform. this present day, Rasmus has his personal corporation VossCon, the place he consults with businesses on easy methods to utilize builders and testers via optimizing software program liberating, offering visibility within the supply chain, upgrading the instrument chain, automating tedious approaches, and coaching builders. He additionally holds classes on Git, Gerrit, and Jenkins.

Table of Contents

1. Navigating Git
2. Configuration
3. Branching, Merging, and Options
4. Rebase on a regular basis and Interactively, and different Use Cases
5. Storing additional info on your Repository
6. Extracting facts from the Repository
7. Enhancing Your day-by-day paintings with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts
8. Recovering from Mistakes
9. Repository Maintenance
10. Patching and Offline Sharing
11. Git Plumbing and Attributes
12. Tips and Tricks