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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Part 6 Working with the Repository’s History

You’ve learned all the basics, as well as some of the more complex topics in Git. It’s time to start looking at all that history you’ve been building up and put the code in the context it was created in.

Your repository is a vault of all the changes you and your team have made to your project. Git tracks all of those changes and their commit messages, making them viewable and searchable via the log.

The log is a reverse chronological view of each commit. By default, it shows you the commit ID, the author, the committer (if that person is different from the author), the date, and the log message. You can show more (or less) in that output.

The power of Git’s log feature is directly related to ...

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