Run git init in a folder and a hidden .git directory appears inside it. Objects, refs/heads, refs/tags and the template files all…
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Nothing you commit leaves your machine until you push it. Until then the work is yours…
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Every clone of a Git repository carries the complete history of the project. That works because…
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A Git branch is a pointer to a commit, saved as a small file that holds…
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Every project folder collects files Git has no business storing. Compiled output, a node\_modules folder with…
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Most teams land on trunk-based development after one too many merges of a branch that drifted…
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Vincent Driessen published Git Flow in 2010, back when most teams shipped software as numbered versions.…
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Say you’re halfway through a change and someone needs you on another branch right now. git…
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Type git checkout and Git does one of two quite different jobs, depending on what comes…
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Run git pull and Git downloads whatever new commits are sitting on the remote, then folds…
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Reviewing edits before a commit and comparing branches before a merge are what git diff gets…
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Teammates push while you’re away from the keyboard, and git fetch is how you find out…
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Git lets you stand on any commit in history and keep working, which is fine until…
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Every commit in Git gets a name you never picked. It shows up in the terminal…
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Most untracked files in a project are junk. Build output, a scratch file called test2.txt that…
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Deleting a tracked file by hand takes two steps. You remove it from disk, then you…
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Git keeps the full history on every machine, which works fine until a second person joins…
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