Chapter 3. Looking Around: Investigating Your Git Repository
You ready to do some digging, Sherlock? As you continue to work in Git, you’ll create branches, make commits, and merge your work back into the integration branches. Each commit represents a step forward, and the commit history represents how you got there. Every so often, you might want to look back to see how you got to where you are, or perhaps if two branches have diverged from one another. We’ll start this chapter by showing you how Git can help you visualize your commit history.
Seeing your commit history is one thing—but Git can also help you see how your repository changed. Recall that commits represent changes, and branches represent a series of changes. How do you know what’s changed—between commits, between branches, or even between your working directory, the index, and the object database? That’s the other topic of this chapter.
Together, we will get to do some seriously interesting Git detective work. Come on, let’s level up those investigative skills!
Brigitte’s on a mission
Allow us to introduce you to Brigitte. Brigitte, after a much-needed vacation, is in the market for a new job. She needs a resume, and knowing that she’ll probably go through a few iterations, she created a repository to work ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month, and much more.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
