Part 4. Git best practices
Part 4 (chapters 12–14) discusses different workflows and best practices for using Git as part of a team of software developers. You’ll be able to compare and contrast differing approaches and decide which is best for your team.
This part will cover the following topics:
- How to write a good commit message and avoid whitespace problems
- How to build a commit using only certain changes in a file
- How CMake and Homebrew open source projects use differing merge/rebase strategies to manage contributions
- How to decide what merge/rebase strategy to use for your project
- How to decide what branching workflow to use for your project
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