Chapter 4. Managing Your Worktree
The previous chapter, Developing with Git, described how to use Git for development, including how to create new revisions. Now we will focus on learning how to manage your working directory (worktree) to prepare contents for a new commit. This chapter will teach you how to manage your files, in detail. It will show how to care for files that require special handling, introducing the concepts of ignored files and file attributes.
You will also learn how to fix mistakes in handling files, both in the working directory and in the staging area; and how to fix the latest commit. You will find out how to safely handle interruptions in the workflow with stash and multiple working directories.
The previous chapter taught ...
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