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Git for Programmers

You're reading from  Git for Programmers

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075732
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty
Profile icon Jesse Liberty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Creating Your Repository 3. Branching, Places, and GUIs 4. Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts 5. Rebasing, Amend, and Cherry-Picking 6. Interactive Rebasing 7. Workflow, Notes, and Tags 8. Aliases 9. Using the Log 10. Important Git Commands and Metadata 11. Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame 12. Fixing Mistakes 13. Next Steps
14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Challenge

Create a local copy of Panofy. Add a note to one of the commits and ensure it is there. Add a tag to one of the commits and make sure it is there. Finally, change which commit the tag is pointing to.

Here is my answer:

First, switch directory to Panofy. If it is not on your local machine, clone it:

Figure 7.17: Switching to the Panofy project

As shown in Figure 7.17 when I tried to change directory to Panofy I was told it doesn't exist, so I cloned it from the server.

To create a mirror I first create a new repo on the server named Panofy2:

Figure 7.18: Mirroring

As you can see in Figure 7.18, this time I did not bother creating a license file as all of this will be overwritten when I mirror Panofy over it. To do so I change directory to Panofy (the original repo) and enter:

git push ––mirror https://github.com/JesseLiberty/Panofy2.git

This takes the repository I'm in (Panofy) and pushes it to the new...

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