Git

TODO: This page could use more content like how to use git. but I'll work on that later.

Git is the distributed version control system used to manage software projects

Setting Up Git

Installing Git has pretty much been done for you on most Debian or Fedora based Linux distro. All that really needs to be done is the set up for a .gitconfig file in your home directory.

[user]
	name = Your Name
	email = your@email.com
[core]
	editor = vim
	eol = lf
[color]
	ui = true

I'll eventually post some curl instructions to download that dummy file for you to fill out the name and email fields later.

Use git to clone a project

The easiest thing you can do with git is clone a project. Pretty much, all you do is download the project as well as any changes that occured to it.

I suggest putting all the git projects you make or contribute in a folder called ~/Projects and all the projects you just downloaded to use to ~/Software. In the ~/Software folder, I also suggest putting any projects created by someone else into a folder with the creators name, as you will likely encounter similarly named git projects

cd ~/Software
mkdir someuser
cd someuser
git clone https://github.com/someuser/someproject.git    # The project is stored in someproject

Creating a git project

Making changes to a git project

Merging with other projects

TODO: Can I also change the name of a project?

See also

• Mercurial
• CVS
• Subversion

External Links

• http://git-scm.com/