Git version control cookbook : leverage version control to transform your development workflow and boost productivity / Kenneth Geisshirt [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geisshirt, Kenneth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Git (Computer file).

Open source software.

Software engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Geisshirt Kenneth: Kenneth Geisshirt is a chemist, by education, and a strong free-software advocate. He spent his Christmas holidays in 1992 installing SLS Linux, and GNU/Linux has been his favorite operating system ever since. Currently, he does consultancy work in fields such as scientific computing and Linux clusters. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his partner and their two children. Zattin(EUR) Emanuele: Emanuele Zattin is the Continuous Integration Specialist at Realm Inc. with experience in software development and design. He is respected for his work in designing and developing a CM Synergy to Git history conversion tool and rolling out Git-Gerrit-Jenkins in several Nokia divisions. Olsson Aske: Aske Olsson has more than 14 years of experience in the software industry. As an electrical engineer, he has been using every tool available for development, from a soldering iron over Assembly, C, Java Groovy, Python and various DSLs for programming to different SCMs and build-, CI- and issue-tracking systems. He has worked for Nokia for 6 years and, currently, works at Keylane. Aske has experience with Git; he has been teaching Git in regular training sessions, from basic Git to advanced usage. Voss Rasmus: Rasmus Voss has been working with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automatic testing, and DevOps, in various industries. He has always strived to ensure that where developers, testers, project leaders, and managers can work with the system instead of against the system. Typically, the processes and solutions he develops are clear, precise, and well documented, with relevant feedback to all parts of the software development process.

Summary:

A series of practical recipes to simplify the Git learning experience and increase your productivity when using Git version control Key Features Explore practical recipes to use Git's most advanced features Learn how Git references its objects and how history is recorded Use reflog and git fsck to recover lost information Book Description Git is one of the most popular tools for versioning. Git Version Control Cookbook builds on the success of the previous edition and provides you with an up-to-date guide to solving problems related to versioning. You'll start by learning about the Git data model and how it stores files and looks at commits. By using simple commands, you'll learn how to navigate through the database. Once you have accustomed yourself to the basics, you'll explore techniques to configure Git with comprehensive examples and configuration targets. You'll gain insights into improving your understanding of branches and recovery from mistakes — right from committing to a wrong branch to recovering lost commits or files. You'll then move on to discovering the features that Git rebase has to offer and use regular Git merge on other branches. You'll explore Git notes and learn how to utilize the update, list, and search commands. In addition to this, you'll learn how to extract metadata from repositories and automate your daily tasks using Git hooks. You'll then study in detail repository maintenance, patching, and offline sharing. By the end of the book, you'll have grasped various tips and tricks for everyday usage, while increasing your knowledge of Git providers, integrations, and clients. What you will learn Understand the Git data model and use commands to navigate the database Find out how you can recover lost commits or files Force a rebase on some branches and use regular Git to merge on the rest Master the techniques required to extract metadata from repositories Explore Git notes and learn about the various features that it offers See how to decode different subcommands Who this book is for The Git Version Control Cookbook is for you if you are a developer or Build Release manager looking for a full-fledged practical guide that will take your Git knowledge to the next level. Basic knowledge of GNU tools and shell or bash scripting is needed. Downloading the example code for this book You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased t...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Navigating Git

Introduction

Git's objects

Getting ready

How to do it...

The commit object

The tree object

The blob object

The branch object

The tag object

How it works...

There's more...

The three stages

See also

Viewing the DAG

Extracting fixed issues

Getting a list of the changed files

Viewing the history with gitk

Finding commits in the history

Searching through the history code

Chapter 2: Configuration

Configuration targets

Querying the existing configuration

Templates

A .git directory template

A few configuration examples

Rebase and merge setup

Expiry of objects

Autocorrect

Git aliases

The refspec exemplified

Chapter 3: Branching, Merging, and Options

Introduction.

Managing your local branches

Branches with remotes

Forcing a merge commit

Using git reuse recorded resolution (rerere) to merge Git conflicts

Compute the difference between branches

Orphan branches

Chapter 4: Rebasing Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases

Rebasing commits to another branch

Continuing a rebase with merge conflicts

Rebasing selected commits interactively

Squashing commits using an interactive rebase

Changing the author of commits using a rebase

Autosquashing commits

Chapter 5: Storing Additional Information in Your Repository

Adding your first Git note

Separating notes by category

Retrieving notes from the remote repository

Pushing Git notes to a remote repository

Tagging commits in the repository

Chapter 6: Extracting Data from the Repository

Extracting the top contributor

There's more.

Finding bottlenecks in the source tree

Grepping the commit messages

The contents of the releases

Finding what has been achieved in the repository in the last period

Chapter 7: Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts

Using a branch description in a commit message

Creating a dynamic commit message template

Using external information in a commit message

Preventing the push of specific commits

Configuring and using Git aliases

Configuring and using Git scripts

Setting up and using a commit template

Chapter 8: Recovering from Mistakes

Undo - Remove a commit completely

Undo - Remove a commit and retain changes to files

Undo - Remove a commit and retain changes in the staging area

Undo - Working with a dirty area

Redo - Recreate the latest commit with new changes

Revert - Undo the changes introduced by a commit

Reverting a merge

See also.

Viewing past Git actions with git reflog

Finding lost changes with git fsck

Chapter 9: Repository Maintenance

Pruning remote branches

Running garbage collection manually

Turning off automatic garbage collection

Splitting a repository

Rewriting history - changing a single file

Creating a backup of your repositories as mirror repositories

A quick "how-to" submodule

Subtree merging

Submodule versus subtree merging

Chapter 10: Patching and Offline Sharing

Creating patches

Creating patches from branches

Applying patches

Sending patches

Creating Git bundles

Using a Git bundle

Creating archives from a tree

Chapter 11: Tips and Tricks

Using git stash

How it works.

There's more...

Saving and applying stashes

Debugging with git bisect

Using the blame command

Coloring the UI in the prompt

Autocompletion

Linux

Mac

Windows

Bash prompt with status information

More aliases

Interactive add

Interactive add with Git gui

Ignoring files

Showing and cleaning ignored files

Chapter 12: Git Providers, Integrations, and Clients

Setting up an organization at GitHub

Creating a repository at GitHub

Adding templates for issues and pull requests

Creating a GitHub API key

Using GitHub to authenticate at Jenkins

Triggering Jenkins builds

Using Jenkinsfiles

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Index.

Notes:

Previous edition published: 2014.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789136944

1789136946

OCLC:

1048789151