Distributed Version Control with Git

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Overview

This books starts with an introduction into distributed version control systems. It continues to describe the basic Git terminology and how you can configure your Git tools.

As the book advances you learn how to connect to remote repositories and how to use branches and tags. The book covers merging and rebasing changes and provides all the necessary tips and tricks to use Git.

It also covers the usage of the popular online Git hosting platforms GitHub or Bitbucket and describes typical Git workflows which are considered as good practice.

Errata

Every book has errors/mistakes to a certain degree. You can find a list of the known bugs on the errata page of this book.

In case you find errors which have not yet been reported, please send an error report by email to: erratabooks@vogella.com .

Errors might be one of the following:

• Typographical errors
• Examples that do not work as described in the book
• Factual errors that are not open to interpretation

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