If you want to manage changes to your projects effectively with ease, this book is for you. It gives you the essential Git commands that cover most of your daily version control needs. Learning is more effective when you work on real examples. Therefore, this book also gives you a complete working solution that guides you through the workflow of managing your work with Git.
You will begin with the basics of managing a project on your local machine, which cover how to create a repository, save a revision of your work, move and delete files, compare differences, inspect project history, restore your project to a previous state, and undo your mistakes. Next, you will learn how to organize your work into isolated lines of development so that you can freely experiment with new ideas. Ideas that work can be merged while others can be discarded. You will also learn how to put a copy of your work online, either to serve as a backup or to share your work with others.
The last chapter gives you a few more commands that can make your work life easier. You will find guidelines on how to use Git effectively as well. Once you have finished this book, you should be able to use Git to manage your projects and explore advanced topics with relative ease.
