Learning Git

Appendix A: Chapter Prerequisites

[ Appendix A ]

Chapter Prerequisites

Learning Git is a hands-on learning experience designed to be read from Chapter 1 through Chapter 12 in a linear way. Throughout the book, you will work on the Rainbow project to learn how Git works.

However, there may be some situations in which you want or need to start from a specific chapter. For example:

• You have gone through the exercises in the entire book once and you want to review from a specific chapter onward.
• Something went wrong in the Rainbow project in a previous chapter that you were not able to troubleshoot, and you want to continue from a new chapter afresh.

In this case, you can use the instructions in the relevant section of this appendix to re-create an approximation of what the Rainbow project should look like at the start of the chapter you want to begin from. This will provide the minimum setup you need to be able to continue working on the Rainbow project from your chapter of choice. For more information and in-depth explanations about the steps in each Follow Along, refer to the relevant chapter’s contents.

[ Note ] For Chapters 9 to 11, you will not re-create all the commits that were made in the previous chapters. You will only re-create a commit similar to the last commit that was made before the chapter you want to start from. This means that your Rainbow project repositories will have fewer commits than the Rainbow project repositories illustrated in the Visualize ...