Git: Distributed Version Control—Fundamentals and Workflows

Git is the most popular version control system today. Here are some of the reasons why so many people are choosing Git. - Git comes with great developer tools - Git offers flexibility and performance - Git allows you to work offline or in multi-site development - Git is robust against failures and attacks - Git has a strong open source community This book explains the basic concepts of Git and starts with introductory chapters to get you up to speed on Git. The authors focus on agile development and provide workflows that show the necessary commands and options for solving real-world problems. The following are some of the topics discussed in this book. - Commits and the commit history - The repository - Parallel development with branches - Merging and conflict resolution - Rebasing - Version tagging - Submodules and subtrees - Troubleshooting with bisection - Splitting a large project - Merging small projects - Migrating to Git