This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience.

Written for Git version 1.8.2, this handy task-oriented guide is organized around the basic version control functions you need, such as making commits, fixing mistakes, merging, and searching history.

• Examine the state of your project at earlier points in time


• Learn the basics of creating and making changes to a repository


• Create branches so many people can work on a project simultaneously


• Merge branches and reconcile the changes among them


• Clone an existing repository and share changes with push/pull commands


• Examine and change your repositoryâ??s commit history


• Access remote repositories, using different network protocols


• Get recipes for accomplishing a variety of common tasks