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Mastering Git

You're reading from   Mastering Git Attain expert level proficiency with Git for enhanced productivity and efficient collaboration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783553754
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Git Basics in Practice 2. Exploring Project History FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing with Git 4. Managing Your Worktree 5. Collaborative Development with Git 6. Advanced Branching Techniques 7. Merging Changes Together 8. Keeping History Clean 9. Managing Subprojects – Building a Living Framework 10. Customizing and Extending Git 11. Git Administration 12. Git Best Practices Index

Creating a new commit

Before starting to develop with Git, you should introduce yourself with a name and an e-mail, as shown in Chapter 1, Git Basics in Practice. This information will be used to identify your work, either as an author or as a committer. The setup can be global for all your repositories (with git config --global, or by editing the ~/.gitconfig file directly), or local to a repository (with git config, or by editing .git/config). The per-repository configuration overrides the per-user one (you will learn more about it in Chapter 10, Customizing and Extending Git). You might want to use your company e-mail for work repositories, but your own non-work e-mail for public repositories you work on.

A relevant fragment of the appropriate config file could look similar to this:

[user]
  name = Joe R. Hacker
  email = [email protected]
Creating a new commit

Fig 1. The graph of revisions (the DAG) for a starting point of an example project, before creating a new commit. The current branch is master, and its...

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