Git Version Control Cookbook

Getting ready

Again, we'll use the example of the hello world repository. Make a fresh clone of the repository, or reset the master branch if you have already cloned one.

We can create the fresh clone as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_hello_world_cookbook.git$ cd Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_hello_world_cookbook

We can reset the existing clone as follows:

$ git checkout master $ git reset --hard origin/master HEAD is now at 3061dc6 Adds Java version of 'hello world'

We'll also need to have some files in the working condition, so we'll change hello_world.c to the following:

#include <stdio.h> 
void say_hello(void) { 
  printf("hello, worldn"); 
} 

int main(void){ ...