September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 27m
English
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Part 2. Git essentials
Part 2 (chapters 3–6) will cover the most essential commands to learn when using Git either alone or with a team. It’s here that you’ll start to see some of the more powerful differences between Git and other version control systems, including advanced branching capabilities and history rewriting.
This part covers the following topics:
- How to delete, move, and rename versioned files and directories
- How to ignore, reset, and temporarily stash certain files and changes
- How to tweak history output to display only the information you need
- How to find out what person or commit caused a particular bug
- How to easily resolve merge conflicts
- How to tag new versions of software
- How to cherry-pick or revert individual commits ...