Table Of ContentPreface; What Is Git?; Goals of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Understanding Git; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 The Object Store; 1.3 Object IDs and SHA-1; 1.4 Where Objects Live; 1.5 The Commit Graph; 1.6 Refs; 1.7 Branches; 1.8 The Index; 1.9 Merging; 1.10 Push and Pull;Chapter 2: Getting Started; 2.1 Basic Configuration; 2.2 Creating a New, Empty Repository; 2.3 Importing an Existing Project; 2.4 Ignoring Files;Chapter 3: Making Commits; 3.1 Changing the Index; 3.2 Making a Commit;Chapter 4: Undoing and Editing Commits; 4.1 Changing the Last Commit; 4.2 Discarding the Last Commit; 4.3 Undoing a Commit; 4.4 Editing a Series of Commits;Chapter 5: Branching; 5.1 The Default Branch, master; 5.2 Making a New Branch; 5.3 Switching Branches; 5.4 Deleting a Branch; 5.5 Renaming a Branch;Chapter 6: Tracking Other Repositories; 6.1 Cloning a Repository; 6.2 Local, Remote, and Tracking Branches; 6.3 Synchronization: Push and Pull; 6.4 Access Control;Chapter 7: Merging; 7.1 Merge Conflicts; 7.2 Details on Merging; 7.3 Merge Tools; 7.4 Custom Merge Tools; 7.5 Merge Strategies; 7.6 Why the Octopus?; 7.7 Reusing Previous Merge Decisions;Chapter 8: Naming Commits; 8.1 Naming Individual Commits; 8.2 Naming Sets of Commits;Chapter 9: Viewing History; 9.1 Command Format; 9.2 Output Formats; 9.3 Defining Your Own Formats; 9.4 Limiting Commits to Be Shown; 9.5 Regular Expressions; 9.6 Reflog; 9.7 Decoration; 9.8 Date Style; 9.9 Listing Changed Files; 9.10 Showing and Following Renames or Copies; 9.11 Rewriting Names and Addresses: The "mailmap"; 9.12 Searching for Changes: The "pickaxe"; 9.13 Showing Diffs; 9.14 Comparing Branches; 9.15 Showing Notes; 9.16 Commit Ordering; 9.17 History Simplification; 9.18 Related Commands;Chapter 10: Editing History; 10.1 Rebasing; 10.2 Importing from One Repository to Another; 10.3 Commit Surgery: git replace; 10.4 The Big Hammer: git filter-branch; 10.5 Notes;Chapter 11: Understanding Patches; 11.1 Applying Plain Diffs; 11.2 Patches with Commit Information;Chapter 12: Remote Access; 12.1 SSH; 12.2 HTTP; 12.3 Storing Your Username; 12.4 Storing Your Password; 12.5 References;Chapter 13: Miscellaneous; 13.1 git cherry-pick; 13.2 git notes; 13.3 git grep; 13.4 git rev-parse; 13.5 git clean; 13.6 git stash; 13.7 git show; 13.8 git tag; 13.9 git diff; 13.10 git instaweb; 13.11 Git Hooks; 13.12 Visual Tools; 13.13 Submodules;Chapter 14: How Do I...'; 14.1 ...Make and Use a Central Repository?; 14.2 ...Fix the Last Commit I Made?; 14.3 ...Edit the Previous n Commits?; 14.4 ...Undo My Last n Commits?; 14.5 ...Reuse the Message from an Existing Commit?; 14.6 ...Reapply an Existing Commit from Another Branch?; 14.7 ...List Files with Conflicts when Merging?; 14.8 ...Get a Summary of My Branches?; 14.9 ...Get a Summary of My Working Tree and Index State?; 14.10 ...Stage All the Current Changes to My Working Files?; 14.11 ...Show the Changes to My Working Files?; 14.12 ...Save and Restore My Working Tree and Index Changes?; 14.13 ...Add a Downstream Branch Without Checking It Out?; 14.14 ...List the Files in a Specific Commit?; 14.15 ...Show the Changes Made by a Commit?; 14.16 ...Get Tab Completion of Branch Names, Tags, and So On?; 14.17 ...List All Remotes?; 14.18 ...Change the URL for a Remote?; 14.19 ...Remove Old Remote-Tracking Branches?; 14.20 ...Have git log:;Index;
SynopsisThis pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience. Written for Git version 1.8.2, this handy task-oriented guide is organized around the basic version control functions you need, such as making commits, fixing mistakes, merging, and searching history. Examine the state of your project at earlier points in time Learn the basics of creating and making changes to a repository Create branches so many people can work on a project simultaneously Merge branches and reconcile the changes among them Clone an existing repository and share changes with push/pull commands Examine and change your repository's commit history Access remote repositories, using different network protocols Get recipes for accomplishing a variety of common tasks, Git Pocket Guide is a concise and focused summary of Git concepts and common use cases. With this guide, new users can come up to speed quickly on using Git, while those already familiar with Git will find it a handy reference on accomplishing everyday version control tasks., If you use Git for distributed version control, this pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion. This task-oriented book helps you quickly find your particular use case, and provides a concise and focused summary of Git concepts. New users can quickly come up to speed on using Git to track, merge, and manage software projects. Those already familiar with Git will find this guide a handy reference on accomplishing everyday version control tasks., This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience. Written for Git version 1.8.2, this handy task-oriented guide is organized around the basic version control functions you need, such as making commits, fixing mistakes, merging, and searching history. Examine the state of your project at earlier points in time Learn the basics of creating and making changes to a repository Create branches so many people can work on a project simultaneously Merge branches and reconcile the changes among them Clone an existing repository and share changes with push/pull commands Examine and change your repository'??s commit history Access remote repositories, using different network protocols Get recipes for accomplishing a variety of common tasks