5 Helpful Features of Git 1.8

This talk was delivered as a live-demo webcast presented by Matthew McCullough and Jon Loeliger, authors of Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition. They aim to take you through some highlights of the last year and a half of Git features all the way up to changes in the recently released version 1.8.

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1. Git Up to Date helpful features of Git 1.8 matthewmccull 5 jonloeliger
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6. ❶ Security Signed Tag Merging
7. $ git tag <TAGNAME>
8. $ git tag -a <TAGNAME>
9. we've had this for quite a while
10. signed tags
11. $ git tag -s <TAGNAME>
12. – Arthur C. Clarke The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
13. and signed merges
14. $ git checkout <branchdestination> $ git merge <TAG1> or even... $ git merge <TAG1> <TAG2> <TAG3>
15. even signed commits
16. $ git tag -s <TAGNAME>
17. ❷ Security HTTP Credential Cache
18. in-memory cache
19. $ git config credential.helper cache
20. $ git config credential.helper cache --timeout=300
21. $ git credential-cache exit
22. on-disk cache
23. Git v1.8.0 Release Notes ======================== UI, Workflows & Features * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of the logged-in user has been added. * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been added.
24. $ git config credential.helper 'osxkeychain'
25. $ git config credential.helper 'wincred'
26. $ git config credential.cache '/some/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-key'
27. ❸ Repository Scale Single Branch Clones
29. single branch... full history
30. $ git clone --single-branch <repourl>
31. ❹ Repository Scale Clone Depth Control
32. limited history
33. $ git clone --depth <number> <repourl>
34. $ git fetch --depth <biggernumber> increase history
35. ❺ Repository Composition Submodule Behavior
36. $ git clone --recurse-submodules <repourl>
37. $ git fetch --recurse-submodules
38. $ git pull --recurse-submodules
39. $ git push --recurse-submodules=check
40. $ git submodule update --force
41. – Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer “Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”
42. Git Up to Date helpful features of Git 1.8 matthewmccull 5 jonloeliger