Git Version Control Cookbook

A series of practical recipes to simplify the Git learning experience and increase your productivity when using Git version control

Key Features

• Explore practical recipes to use Git's most advanced features
• Learn how Git references its objects and how history is recorded
• Use reflog and git fsck to recover lost information

Book Description

Git is one of the most popular tools for versioning. Git Version Control Cookbook builds on the success of the previous edition and provides you with an up-to-date guide to solving problems related to versioning.

You'll start by learning about the Git data model and how it stores files and looks at commits. By using simple commands, you'll learn how to navigate through the database. Once you have accustomed yourself to the basics, you'll explore techniques to configure Git with comprehensive examples and configuration targets. You'll gain insights into improving your understanding of branches and recovery from mistakes-right from committing to a wrong branch to recovering lost commits or files. You'll then move on to discovering the features that Git rebase has to offer and use regular Git merge on other branches. You'll explore Git notes and learn how to utilize the update, list, and search commands. In addition to this, you'll learn how to extract metadata from repositories and automate your daily tasks using Git hooks. You'll then study in detail repository maintenance, patching, and offline sharing. By the end of the book, you'll have grasped various tips and tricks for everyday usage, while increasing your knowledge of Git providers, integrations, and clients.

What you will learn

• Understand the Git data model and use commands to navigate the database
• Find out how you can recover lost commits or files
• Force a rebase on some branches and use regular Git to merge on the rest
• Master the techniques required to extract metadata from repositories
• Explore Git notes and learn about the various features that it offers
• See how to decode different subcommands

Who this book is for

The Git Version Control Cookbook is for you if you are a developer or Build Release manager looking for a full-fledged practical guide that will take your Git knowledge to the next level. Basic knowledge of GNU tools and shell or bash scripting is needed.

Table of Contents

1. Navigating Git
2. Configuration
3. Branching, Merging, and Options
4. Rebasing Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases
5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository
6. Extracting Data from the Repository
7. Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts
8. Recovering from Mistakes
9. Repository Maintenance
10. Patching and Offline Sharing
11. Tips and Tricks
12. Git Providers, Integrations, and Clients

Kenneth Geisshirt is a chemist, by education, and a strong free-software advocate. He spent his Christmas holidays in 1992 installing SLS Linux, and GNU/Linux has been his favorite operating system ever since. Currently, he does consultancy work in fields such as scientific computing and Linux clusters. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his partner and their two children.

Emanuele Zattin is the Continuous Integration Specialist at Realm Inc. with experience in software development and design. He is respected for his work in designing and developing a CM Synergy to Git history conversion tool and rolling out Git-Gerrit-Jenkins in several Nokia divisions.

Rasmus Voss has been working with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automatic testing, and DevOps, in various industries. He has always strived to ensure that where developers, testers, project leaders, and managers can work with the system instead of against the system. Typically, the processes and solutions he develops are clear, precise, and well documented, with relevant feedback to all parts of the software development process.

Aske Olsson has more than 14 years of experience in the software industry. As an electrical engineer, he has been using every tool available for development, from a soldering iron over Assembly, C, Java Groovy, Python and various DSLs for programming to different SCMs and build-, CI- and issue-tracking systems. He has worked for Nokia for 6 years and, currently, works at Keylane. Aske has experience with Git; he has been teaching Git in regular training sessions, from basic Git to advanced usage.