In this presentation, I go through the basic flow of using git, some of the git commands with their advanced usages and at the latter part I discuss the best practices in using git.

1. Senior Software Engineer
Kalpa Welivitigoda
Git | Beyond Basics

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๏ Initializing a git repository
๏ Adding files
๏ Committing
๏ Adding remotes
๏ Push/Pull
๏ Status
What we know already

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WSO2/product-as john/product-as
John’s local filesystem
product-as
Fork
Clone
(origin)
Remote
(upstream)

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We are no alone!
WSO2/product-as bill/product-as
john/product-as
John’s local filesystem
product-as
bob/product-as
Bill’s local filesystem
product-as
Bob’s local filesystem
product-as

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Developing a feature

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Keep up with the changes...

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Merge
Vs.
Rebase

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git merge
$ git checkout feature
$ git merge master
๏ Non destructive mechanism
๏ Additional commit

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git rebase
$ git checkout feature
$ git rebase master
๏ Cleaner commit history
๏ Rewrites the history!!!!

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๏ Very powerful
๏ Clean the commit history before merging to master
branch
$ git rebase -i HEAD~10
Interactive rebase
# Commands:
p, pick = use commit
r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log
message
x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell
d, drop = remove commit

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Split commits | Demo

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git stash
๏ A stack of uncommitted changes
๏ Tracks modified files and staged changes
๏ Useful when switching between branches

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$ git stash
$ git stash save stash1
git stash...
$ git stash list
$ git stash apply
$ git stash apply stash@{1}
$ git stash drop
$ git stash pop
$ git stash -p
$ git checkout stash@{n} -- {{file_path}}

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Selective stashing | Demo

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$ git log --oneline
$ git log --decorate
$ git log --stat
$ git log -- graph --oneline --decorate
$ git shortlog
$ gitk
git log
Log formatting

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$ git log -3
$ git log --after="2016-09-01"
$ git log --after="yesterday"
$ git log --after="1 week ago"
$ git log --author="John|Mary"
$ git log --grep="WSAS"
$ git log -- pom.xml
$ git log -S "maven-deploy-plugin"
$ git log --no-merges
$ git log -- merges
$ git log <since>...<until>
git log...
Log filtering

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$ git config --global alias.lo "log --oneline"
$ git lo
git alias

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$ git checkout feature
$ git cherry-pick 5a63064
git cherry-pick
๏ It’s a new commit !!!!

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$ git reflog
git reflog
๏ git log shows commits in ancestor order
๏ Reflog shows in the order you last referenced the
commits

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$ git bisect start
$ git bisect good <good commit hash>
$ git bisect bad <bad commit hash>
$ git bisect reset
git bisect
๏ Used to find the commit that introduced a bug/fix
๏ Do a binary search of the commits

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Git best practices
๏ Develop features in feature branches
๏ Commit often, perfect later, publish once
๏ Never change published history (it is possible with
push -f, but never ever do it)
๏ Keep your git tree clean (git pull upstream master --rebase)

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Git best practices...
๏ A commit message has a subject and a body.
๏ Make the commit subject imperative
๏ Link to the JIRA/Git Issue ID
๏ WSAS-1169 : <commit subject>
๏ Resolves #21

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Reference
๏ https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/advanced-
overview
๏ http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
๏ https://git-scm.com/doc

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Questions ?

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Thank You !