Git: Mastering Version Control

Summary

In this chapter, we learnt how to develop with Git and add to the project history by creating new commits and new lines of development (branches). We know what it means to create a commit, to amend a commit, to create a branch, to switch a branch, to rewind a branch, and to delete a branch from the point of view of the Directed Acyclic Graph of revisions.

This chapter shown a very important Git feature—the staging area for creating commits, also known as the index. This is what makes it possible to untangle the changes to the working directory by selectively and interactively choosing what to commit.

We learnt how to examine the changes to the working area before creating a commit. This chapter described, in detail, the extended unified ...