The command git commit -a first looks at your working tree, notices that you have modified hello.c and removed goodbye.c, and performs necessary git add and git rm for you.

For this book, we will be using Git on the command line. For one, the command line is the only place you can run all Git commands — most of the GUIs implement only a partial subset of Git …

DESCRIPTION This tutorial explains how to import a new project into Git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. If you are instead primarily interested in using Git to …

This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory configuration options to git, but are doing so on operating systems where other processes might be able to read your command …

git config help bugreport Credential helpers Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit notes restore reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch …

While git creates a basic commit message automatically, it is strongly recommended to explain why the original commit is being reverted. In addition, repeatedly reverting reverts will result in …

Instead of just moving the branch pointer forward, Git creates a new snapshot that results from this three-way merge and automatically creates a new commit that points to it.

Setting it to all disables the submodule summary normally shown by git commit and git status when status.submoduleSummary is set unless it is overridden by using the --ignore …

A huge number and variety of options to the git log command are available to show you exactly what you’re looking for. Here, we’ll show you some of the most popular. One of the more …

Various commands, including git checkout and git status, will show you how many commits have been added to your current branch and the upstream since you forked from it, for example …