Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

Getting ready

Before we can start, we need another clone from the local clone we already have. This is to show the push and fetch mechanism of Git with git notes:

1. Start by checking out the master branch:

$ git checkout master
Checking out files: 100% (1529/1529), done.
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

2. Now, create a local branch of all the stable-3.1 branches:

$ git branch stable-3.1 origin/stable-3.1
Branch stable-3.1 set up to track remote branch stable-3.1 from origin.

3. We are checking out all these branches because we want to clone this repository and, by default, all the refs/heads/* branches will be cloned. So, when we clone the chapter5 directory, you will see that we only get the branches ...