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Mastering Git

You're reading from   Mastering Git Attain expert-level proficiency with Git by mastering distributed version control features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835086070
Length 444 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jakub Narębski Jakub Narębski
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 - Exploring Project History and Managing Your Own Work FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Git Basics in Practice 3. Chapter 2: Developing with Git 4. Chapter 3: Managing Your Worktrees 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Project History 6. Chapter 5: Searching Through the Repository 7. Part 2 - Working with Other Developers
8. Chapter 6: Collaborative Development with Git 9. Chapter 7: Publishing Your Changes 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Branching Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Merging Changes Together 12. Chapter 10: Keeping History Clean 13. Part 3 - Managing, Configuring, and Extending Git
14. Chapter 11: Managing Subprojects 15. Chapter 12: Managing Large Repositories 16. Chapter 13: Customizing and Extending Git 17. Chapter 14: Git Administration 18. Chapter 15: Git Best Practices 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handling repositories with a large number of files

The rise in the use of monorepos (this concept was explained in detail in Chapter 11, Managing Subprojects) has led to the need to handle repositories with large amounts of files. In a monorepo – that is, a repository composed of many interconnected subprojects – you would usually work on a single subproject and access and change files only within a specific subdirectory.

Limiting the number of working directory files with sparse checkout

Git includes the sparse checkout technique, which allows you to explicitly detail which files and folders you want to populate on checkout. This mode can be turned on by setting the core.sparseCheckout configuration variable to true and uses the .git/info/sparse-checkout file with the gitignore-like syntax to specify what is to appear in the working directory. The index (also known as the staging area) is populated in full, with the skip-worktree flag set for files missing from...

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