Chapter 12. Git Best Practices
The last chapter of Mastering Git presents a collection of generic and Git-specific version control recommendations and best practices. You have encountered many of these recommendations already in the earlier chapters; they are here as a summary and as a reminder. For details and the reasoning behind each best practice, you would be referred to specific chapters.
This chapter will cover issues of managing the working directory, creating commits and series of commits (pull requests), submitting changes for inclusion, and the peer review of changes.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- How to separate projects into repositories
- What types of data to store in a repository and which files should Git ignore ...
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