Git in Practice

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