Git in Practice

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Introduction to Git

Chapter 1. Local Git

1.1. Why do programmers use Git?

1.2. Initial setup

Technique 1 Creating a repository: git init

1.3. .git subdirectory

1.4. Creating a new commit: git add, git commit

Technique 2 Building a new commit in the index staging area: git add

Technique 3 Committing changes to files: git commit

1.4.1. Object store

1.4.2. Parent commits

1.5. Rewriting history

Technique 5 Viewing the differences between commits: git diff

1.6. Diff formats

1.7. Refs

1.8. Summary

Chapter 2. Remote Git

Technique 6 Adding a remote repository: git remote add

2.1. Authoritative ...