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Git Version Control Cookbook

You're reading from Git Version Control Cookbook 90 hands-on recipes that will increase your productivity when using Git as a version control system

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782168454

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Git

Concepts

Version Control

Authors (2):

Olsson

Voss

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Git Version Control Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Navigating Git FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuration

3. Branching, Merging, and Options

4. Rebase Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases

5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository

6. Extracting Data from the Repository

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

8. Recovering from Mistakes

9. Repository Maintenance

10. Patching and Offline Sharing

11. Git Plumbing and Attributes

12. Tips and Tricks

Index

Chapter 9. Repository Maintenance

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

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 submodule how-to
Subtree merging
Submodule versus subtree merging

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Authors (2)

Olsson

Olsson

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.

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Voss

Voss

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.

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