Git Authoritative Guide

The Git Authoritative Guide is a masterpiece in the field of Git and an encyclopedia about Git, which makes similar works incomparable in breadth, depth and practicality. The author is one of the top version control experts and consultants in China. This book has been highly recognized and highly recommended by several experts, such as Junio C Hamano, the official defender of Git, and Robin, the founder of ITeye. There is no doubt about its authority.

The book has 9 chapters, 41 chapters and 4 appendices, covering almost all aspects of Git. Chapter 1 introduces the evolution history of version control tools, various advantages of Git, and its installation and configuration in three mainstream operating systems. The second and third chapters are the basis and core of the book. They not only introduce the operation and use of Git, but also explain the principle of Git. Chapter 2 explains in detail how individual users use Git, including Git initialization, daily operations, staging area, objects, reset, checkout, recovery progress, historical changes, cloning, library management, etc; Chapter 3 explains in detail the Git protocol and how the team uses Git, including protocols supported by Git, conflict resolution, milestones, branches, remote version libraries, and patch file interactions. Chapter 4 gives a comprehensive introduction to Git's collaboration model, that is, its use mode in actual work, including various classic Git collaboration models, Topgit collaboration models, sub module collaboration models, sub tree merging, Android multi version library collaboration, Git and SVN collaboration models, etc. Chapter 5 introduces the erection of Git server. First, it explains the use of HTTP protocol, Git protocol and SSH protocol. Then it explains the erection methods of Gitolite, Gitosis, Gerrit and other servers. Finally, it explains the hosting of Git version library. Chapter 6 introduces the migration of version libraries, including how to migrate from CVS, SVN, Hg and other version libraries to Git, and how to organize Git version libraries. Chapter 7 explains other Git applications, including the installation, configuration and use of etckeeper and Gistore, as well as binary files and cloud storage in patches. Chapter 8 introduces Git's cross platform operations, as well as its important features such as hooks and templates, sparse detection and shallow cloning, grafting and replacement. Chapter 9 is an appendix, which gives a detailed command index of Git, as well as the comparison and command comparison between CVS, SVN, Hg and Git for the convenience of readers.