Mastering Git: Attain expert level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration

by Jakub Narebski

Attain expert-level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration by mastering advanced distributed version control features Git is one of the most popular types of Source Code Management (SCM) and Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). Despite the powerful and versatile nature of the tool enveloping strong support for nonlinear development and the ability to handle large projects efficiently, it is a complex tool and often regarded as "user-unfriendly". Getting to know the ideas and concepts behind the architecture of Git will help you make full use of its power and understand its behavior. Learning the best practices and recommended workflows should help you to avoid problems and ensure trouble-free development. The book scope is meticulously designed to help you gain deeper insights into Git's architecture, its underlying concepts, behavior, and best practices. Mastering Git starts with a quick implementation example of using Git for a collaborative development of a sample project to establish the foundation knowledge of Git operational tasks and concepts. Furthermore, as you progress through the book, the tutorials provide detailed descriptions of various areas of from archaeology, through managing your own work, to working with other developers. This book also helps augment your understanding to examine and explore project history, create and manage your contributions, set up repositories and branches for collaboration in centralized and distributed version control, integrate work from other developers, customize and extend Git, and recover from repository errors. By exploring advanced Git practices, you will attain a deeper understanding of Git's behavior, allowing you to customize and extend existing recipes and write your own.

418 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2016

Reviews

[Kiara · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book if you want to really want to know more about Git and you are coming from the beginner side where you only do, git {push, pull, commit, add}.

I would highly recommend to verify what the book says with practice so that you can add an additional layer to the learning process. It's not a book to read while you are at airport either at bed. Definitely you need to seat down and take a time to grasp.