I am working through the second edition of this book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.

I have printed out the first 100 pages of the book1, and conducted an inspectional reading (in Mortimer J. Adler's sense of the word).

Deep Work 1: Git Basics, Git Branching.

getting started

"Deep Work: Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit." —Cal Newport

  • you can either have config details at the system scope, global scope or local scope:

    • /etc/gitconfig
    • ~/.config/git/config or ~/.gitconfig
    • ./.git/config
git config --list --show-origin
file:/home/alex/.gitconfig user.email=aayushbajaj7@gmail.com
file:/home/alex/.gitconfig user.name=Aayush Bajaj
file:.git/config core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config core.filemode=true
file:.git/config core.bare=false
file:.git/config core.logallrefupdates=true
file:.git/config remote.origin.url=git@github.com:abaj8494/site
file:.git/config remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
file:.git/config branch.main.remote=origin
file:.git/config branch.main.merge=refs/heads/main
  • we can check what git thinks a particular value is with git config user.name.

  • also you can view everything with git config --list.

    • a useful tag with this one though is git config --show-origin user.name. because multiple config files can be read!

git basics

git branching

DW 2: Distributed Git, Github, Advanced Git Commands

DW 3: Git internals

Footnotes

1

it turns out that obtaining the physical copy is hardly worth it. ~$75 AUD for a Black and White potentially out-dated copy. meanwhile the authors appear to maintain something more current here.