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Before We Begin

About this Module

Introduction to Git

What is Source Control?The Four Phases of Git Content Branches What about GitHub?How Git Differs from Other Version Control Systems (VCS's)

Git Basics

Introduction: Git Basics

Initializing Git Repository

Looking at Repository's History

Retrieving a Repository's Status

Add Files to a Repository

Committing Changes to a Repository

Challenge: Git Basics

Clone a Repository

Introduction: Clone a Repository Cloning a Remote Repository Accidental Deletion Recover Your Repository Challenge: Clone a Repository

Git Branching

Introduction: Git Branching Creating a Branch Detached Heads What about Tags?Conclusion: Git Branching Challenge: Git Branching

Merging

Introduction: Merging A Toy Merging Example Merging Step by Step Handling Merge Conflicts Challenge: Merging

Git Stash

Introduction: Git Stash Dealing With a Scenario Choosing Your Stash Challenge: Git Stash

Git Add Interactive

Introduction: Git Add Interactive The Add Interactive Command

Reflog

Introduction: Reflog Lose a Commit, Get it Back Challenge: Reflog

Cherry Picking

Introduction: Cherry-Picking A Simple Cherry-Pick When Cherry-Picking Might Fail Challenge: Cherry-Picking

Git Rebase

Introduction: Git Rebase Outline of a Simple Rebase Walkthrough of a Simple Rebase

Git Bisect

Introduction: Git Bisect Bisecting: The Session at a High Level A Real 'git bisect' Session The Difference Between ∼ and ^

Fetching and Pulling Content

Introduction: Fetching and Pulling Content Two Git Repos: 'git_origin' and 'git_cloned'The 'git fetch' Command

Working With Multiple Repositories

Introduction: Working With Multiple Repositories Three-Linked Repositories Challenge: Working With Multiple Repositories

Pushing Code

Introduction: Pushing Code Creating and Pushing Branches Pushing to Repositories With Different Content The Branch Exists Only On The Remote Tracking Remote Branches With Different Names

Git Submodules

Introduction: Git Submodules A Worked Example The 'git submodule' Command Git Tracks the Submodule’s State Cloning a Project With Submodules

Pull Requests

What Are Pull Requests?Forking And Branching in GitHub

Git Log

Introduction: Git Log A Realistic Log History The 'git log' Command

Squashing Commits

Introduction: Squashing Commits A Worked Example The 'git rebase -i' Command

Bare Repositories

Introduction: Bare Repositories Setting up a Bare Repository Squashes the Commits Git Pull and Merge Hell

Cherry-Picking and Three-Way Merges

Introduction: Cherry-Picking and Three-Way Merges Attempting to Apply Cherry-Pick Generate and Apply Patch

Git Hooks

Introduction: Git Hooks A ‘pre-commit’ Hook A More Sophisticated Example Additional Information on Hooks

Conclusion

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Initializing Git Repository

Initializing Git Repository

Learn how to initialize a “Git repository” in your project.

To initialize a Git repository, run git init from within the root folder of the source that you want to manage.

1	mkdir lgthw_git_basics
2	cd lgthw_git_basics
3	git init

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This locally initializes a database in the folder .git. Your repository is entirely stored within this .git folder. To work with this repository, ...