Git in Practice

Chapter 3. Filesystem interactions

This chapter covers

• Renaming, moving, and removing versioned files or directories
• Telling Git to ignore certain files or changes
• Deleting all untracked or ignored files or directories
• Resetting all files to their previously committed state
• Temporarily stashing and reapplying changes to files

When working with a project in Git, you’ll sometimes want to move, delete, change, and/or ignore certain files in your working directory. You could mentally keep track of the state of important files and changes, but this isn’t a sustainable approach. Instead, Git provides commands for performing filesystem operations for you.

Understanding the Git filesystem commands will allow you to quickly perform these operations ...