- Author: Scott Chacon
- Format: online HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI
- Price: free
Git is the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It took the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and is used by small development shops and giants like Google, Red Hat, and IBM, and of course many open source projects.
This book is for all open source developers: you are bound to encounter it somewhere in the course of your working life. Proprietary software developers will appreciate Git’s enormous scalability, since it is used for the Linux project, which comprises thousands of developers and testers.
Chapters include:
- About Version Control
- A Short History of Git
- Git Basics
- Installing Git
- First-Time Git Setup
- Getting Help
- Getting a Git Repository
- Recording Changes to the Repository
- Viewing the Commit History
- Undoing Things
- Working with Remotes
- Tagging
- Tips and Tricks
- What a Branch Is
- Basic Branching and Merging
- Branch Management
- Branching Workflows
- Remote Branches
- Rebasing
- The Protocols
- Getting Git on a Server
- Generating Your SSH Public Key
- Setting Up the Server
- Public Access
- GitWeb
- Gitosis
- Gitolite
- Git Daemon
- Hosted Git
- Distributed Workflows
- Contributing to a Project
- Maintaining a Project
- Revision Selection
- Interactive Staging
- Stashing
- Rewriting History
- Debugging with Git
- Submodules
- Subtree Merging
- Git Configuration
- Git Attributes
- Git Hooks
- An Example Git-Enforced Policy
- Git and Subversion
- Migrating to Git
- Plumbing and Porcelain
- Git Objects
- Git References
- Packfiles
- The Refspec
- Transfer Protocols
- Maintenance and Data Recovery
