Git Pocket Guide: A Working Introduction

Silverman, Richard E.

ISBN 10: 1449325866 / ISBN 13: 9781449325862

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Git Pocket Guide: A Working Introduction
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449325866
• ISBN 13: 9781449325862
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience.

Written for Git version 1.8.2, this handy task-oriented guide is organized around the basic version control functions you need, such as making commits, fixing mistakes, merging, and searching history.

• Examine the state of your project at earlier points in time
• Learn the basics of creating and making changes to a repository
• Create branches so many people can work on a project simultaneously
• Merge branches and reconcile the changes among them
• Clone an existing repository and share changes with push/pull commands
• Examine and change your repositoryâ??s commit history
• Access remote repositories, using different network protocols
• Get recipes for accomplishing a variety of common tasks

About the Author

Richard E. Silverman has a B.A. in computer science and an M.A. in pure mathematics. Richard has worked in the fields of networking, formal methods in software development, public-key infrastructure, routing security, and Unix systems administration. He co-authored the SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2e and the Linux Security Cookbook.