Git Essentials

by Ferdinando Santacroce

Key Features Master all the basic concepts of Git to protect your code and make it easier to evolve Use Git proficiently, and learn how to resolve day-by-day challenges easily This step-by-step guide is packed with examples to help you learn and work with Git’s internals Book Description

Since its inception, Git has attracted skilled developers due to its robust, powerful, and reliable features. Its incredibly fast branching ability transformed a piece of code from a niche tool for Linux Kernel developers into a mainstream distributed versioning system. Like most powerful tools, Git can be hard to approach since it has a lot of commands, subcommands, and options that easily confuse newcomers.

The 2nd edition of this very successful book will help you overcome this fear and become adept in all the basic tasks in Git. Building upon the success of the first book, we start with a brief step-by-step installation guide; after this, you'll delve into the essentials of Git. For those of you who have bought the first edition, this time we go into internals in far greater depth, talking less about theory and using much more practical examples.

The book serves as a primer for topics to follow, such as branching and merging, creating and managing a GitHub personal repository, and fork and pull requests. You’ll then learn the art of cherry-picking, taking only the commits you want, followed by Git blame. Finally, we'll see how to interoperate with a Subversion server, covering the concepts and commands needed to convert an SVN repository into a Git repository.

To conclude, this is a collection of resources, links, and appendices to satisfy even the most curious.

What you will learn Master Git fundamentals Be able to "visualize," even with the help of a valid GUI tool Write principal commands in a shell Figure out the right strategy to run change your daily work with few or no annoyances Explore the tools used to migrate to Git from the Subversion versioning system without losing your development history Plan new projects and repositories with ease, using online services, or local network resources About the Author

Ferdinando Santacroce is a developer, author, and trainer who loves learning new things. As a software developer, Ferdinando mainly worked on the .NET platform using C#, bridging the gap between old-style systems and new technologies. Over his career, he has allowed some COBOL applications to talk with remote services, databases, and electronic devices, such as cash handlers, scanners, and electronic shelf labels.

At the moment, he is committed to helping the largest energy player in Italy face the new challenges of the market, by developing Java and JavaScript-based applications.

Other than this, he's focusing on continuous improvement and the Agile Movement, which he follows with great care, in conjunction with XP foundations and lean manufacturing. He is one of the organizers of the Italian Agile Days, the most famous and appreciated conference in the Italian Agile panorama.

Ferdinando loves to share ideas with other professionals and speak at public conferences, too: every time he does this, he learns something new.

He enjoys writing too; after a hiatus of a few years, he started blogging again about his work and passions, which according to him, are more or less the same thing.

Most of what he learned over the years has been thanks to the help of his friends and colleagues.

Genres: Programming, Software, Technical

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 10, 2015

Reviews

[Mario · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good resources information and a great explanation of workflows.

[Zbyszek Sokolowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice book, makes nice introduction to git. Well written with intresting links to more advanced resources.

[Joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked how well the examples worked. I read on one screen and food the exercises in the other. I also used this to convert from svn to git based on the chapters at the end. It was extremely helpful to decide on a workflow as well.

[Furkan Sakar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice introduction to Git. I also like the workflow part where it shows some commonly accepted strategies. I recommend the book even you did not decide to use Git.

[Emanuele Parrinello · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well written introduction to Git. Also offer a in-depth view of Git internals.

[Girish B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful for anyone starting to use Git.

[LustHeroin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not new in developing, but this book worse than official guide about git. Sadly i get nothing new information from books, and i can't recommend it even for my students