Git Essentials : Create, Merge, and Distribute Code with Git, the Most Powerful and Flexible Versioning System Available.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Git -- Installing Git -- Running our first Git command -- Setting up a new repository -- Adding a file -- Commit the added file -- Modify a committed file -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Git Fundamentals - Working Locally -- Repository structure and file status life cycle -- Working directory -- File statuses -- Staging area -- Unstaging a file -- The time metaphor -- The past -- The present -- The future -- Working with repositories -- Unstaging a file -- Viewing the history -- Anatomy of a commit -- The commit snapshot -- The commit hash -- Author, e-mail, and date -- Commit messages -- Committing a bunch of files -- Ignoring some files and folders by default -- Highlighting an important commit: Git tags -- Taking another way - Git branching -- Anatomy of branches -- Looking at the current branches -- Creating a new branch -- Switching from branch to branch -- Understanding what happens under the hood -- Bird's eye view to branches -- Typing is boring - Git aliases -- Merging branches -- Merge is not the end of the branch -- Exercises -- Exercise 2.1 -- Exercise 2.2 -- Deal with branches' modifications -- Diffing branches -- Using a visual diff tool -- Resolving merge conflicts -- Edit collisions -- Resolving a removed file conflict -- Stashing -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Git Fundamentals - Working Remotely -- Working with remotes -- Setting up a new GitHub account -- Cloning a repository -- Uploading modifications to remotes -- What do I send to the remote when I push? -- Pushing a new branch to the remote -- The origin -- Tracking branches -- Downloading remote changes -- Checking for modifications and downloading them -- Applying downloaded changes.

Going backward: publish a local repository to GitHub -- Adding a remote to a local repository -- Pushing a local branch to a remote repository -- Social coding - collaborate using GitHub -- Forking a repository -- Submitting pull requests -- Creating a pull request -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Git Fundamentals - Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands -- Dissecting the Git configuration -- Configuration architecture -- Configuration levels -- Listing configurations -- Editing configuration files manually -- Setting up other environment configurations -- Git aliases -- Shortcuts to common commands -- Creating commands -- git unstage -- git undo -- git last -- git difflast -- Advanced aliases with external commands -- Removing an alias -- Aliasing git command itself -- Git references -- Symbolic references -- Ancestry references -- First parent -- Second parent -- World-wise techniques -- Changing the last commit message -- Tracing changes in a file -- Cherry picking -- Tricks -- Bare repositories -- Converting a regular repository to a bare one -- Backup repositories -- Archiving the repository -- Bundling the repository -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Obtaining the Most - Good Commits and Workflows -- The art of committing -- Building the right commit -- Make only one change per commit -- Include the whole change in one commit -- Describe the change, not what have you done -- Don't be afraid to commit -- Isolate meaningless commits -- The perfect commit message -- Adopting a workflow, a wise act -- Centralized workflows -- How they work -- Feature branch workflow -- GitFlow -- Master branch -- Hotfixes branches -- The develop branch -- The release branch -- The feature branches -- Conclusion -- GitHub flow -- Anything in the master branch is deployable -- Creating descriptive branches off of master -- Pushing to named branches constantly.

Opening a pull request at any time -- Merging only after pull request review -- Deploying immediately after review -- Conclusions -- Other workflows -- Linux kernel workflow -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Migrating to Git -- Before starting -- Prerequisites -- Working on a Subversion repository using Git -- Creating a local Subversion repository -- Checking out the Subversion repository with svn client -- Cloning a Subversion repository from Git -- Setting up a local Subversion server -- Adding a tag and a branch -- Committing a file to Subversion using Git as a client -- Using Git with a Subversion repository -- Migrating a Subversion repository -- Retrieving the list of Subversion users -- Cloning the Subversion repository -- Preserving ignored file list -- Pushing to a local bare Git repository -- Arranging branches and tags -- Renaming trunk branch to master -- Converting Subversion tags to Git tags -- Pushing the local repository to a remote -- Comparing Git and Subversion commands -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Git Resources -- Git GUI clients -- Windows -- Git GUI -- TortoiseGit -- GitHub for Windows -- Atlassian SourceTree -- Cmder -- Mac OS X -- Linux -- Building up a personal Git server with web interface -- SCM Manager -- Learning Git in a visual manner -- Git on the Internet -- Git community on Google+ -- GitMinutes and Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen blog -- Ferdinando Santacroce's blog -- Summary -- Index.

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