Git for Programmers: Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects

by Jesse Liberty

Learn to track, branch, merge, and manage code revisions for real-world development scenarios Whether you’re looking for a book to deepen your understanding of Git or a refresher, this book is the ultimate guide to Git. Git for Programmers comprehensively equips you with actionable insights on advanced Git concepts in an engaging and straightforward way. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll gain expertise (and confidence) on Git with lots of practical use cases. After a quick refresher on git history and installation, you’ll dive straight into the creation and cloning of your repository. You’ll explore Git places, branching, and GUIs to get familiar with the fundamentals. Then you’ll learn how to handle merge conflicts, rebase, amend, interactive rebase, and use the log, as well as explore important Git commands for managing your repository. The troubleshooting part of this Git book will include detailed instructions on how to bisect, blame, and several other problem handling techniques that will complete your newly acquired Git arsenal. By the end of this book, you’ll be using Git with confidence. Saving, sharing, managing files as well as undoing mistakes and basically rewriting history will be a breeze. If you have basic understanding of Git and want to strengthen your command over advanced techniques and navigate different functions, this book is for you. Knowing the fundamentals of Git will help you get the most out of this book, but beginners willing to invest some extra effort will be able to follow along as well.

264 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2021

About the author

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses.

He currently works for CNH writing APIs.
He was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS.

He has been a Microsoft MVP for 13 years.

His most recent book is Writing APIs with .NET (Packt 2024)

You can find him at https://jesseliberty.com/find-me

Reviews

[Александр Гидревич · Rating 1 out of 5]

Imagine you asking friend to show you this thing, you know, git. And he/she did it. And he know his/her Visual Studio so mainly it was "press this/that button". Everything you'll remember after "the show" - "there is buttons". Such an exemplary for MS way to thinking. No system, no understanding why, just look for buttons.

After you reach Summary of chapter two you'll find following enthusiastic but empty of any meaning text:
"we covered a number of topics" ... no, you don't, I say, you said there was buttons for pull, push, and my favorite topic: "Using Visual Studio".

Don't waste your time and skip it.

[Hugo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have liked to have seen reviews from other people here so I could compare my review with somebody else's. Nevertheless, here is mine and I hope it is helpful...

I initially thought this book would go more in-depth about Git topics, and although it did not, I think it did well trying to summarize important topics, as well as highlighting the most important aspects of them (e. g. why and when to perform one of the rewriting history commands, Git sections and what they are all about, commit good practices, aliases and some helpful ones that you would need on a daily basis, etc.). I would also like to point out the fact that this book includes challenges at the end of every topic so you can put into practice everything you just read about, and it also includes the solution of it. This book also includes guides to show you how to get things done in different technologies: VSCode, the command line, GitHub Desktop, etc.

However, since this is not the only resource I considered to learn about Git, I can say that I could found more information from other sources and, as incredibly as it sounds, the best one for me is this free video tutorial from a Spaniard YouTuber: makigas (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...). Go have a look if you are interested and speak Spanish.

Thanks for reading me. Happy coding!