GIT Basics
Contributors
Rishabh Singh / @stalwart201
What is GIT?
HISTORY OF GIT
what is VCS?
- It allows developers to work simultaneously.
- It does not allow overwriting each other’s changes.
- It maintains a history of every version.
Distributed Version Control System
Why Git?
- You can use git even when you're offline.
- Create branches, work locally, isolate your work and merge seamlessly.
- Code revisions (commit) that you made would be available to only you locally unless you push to remote repo.
What is github?
Differnce between Git and Github
Installing git on Linux
- For Fedora users:
- For Debian users:
$ sudo yum install git-all
$ sudo apt-get install git-all
GIT WORKFLOW
Obtain repo
git init
git clone "url"
Create branch
git branch {branch name}
Switching to other branch
git checkout {branch name}
Make changes
Stage changes
git add {filename}
Commit changes
git commit -m “Commit message”
Merging
git merge origin/master
Push changes to remote area
git push {remote_name} {repo_name}
Git help
- $ git help <verb>
- $ git <verb> --help
- $ man git-<verb>