git - how?
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Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
– Linus Torvalds
History
On 3 April 2005, Linus Torvalds began the development of git, after many Linux kernel developers gave up access to BitKeeper. Just 3 days after, on 6 April, Torvalds announced the project. And the next day, it became self-hosting.
On 26 July 2005, Linus Torvalds turned over git’s project maintenance to Junio Hamano. Hamano is the project’s core maintainer since.
Workflow
The basic/usual git workflow is the following:
- Create/clone a git repository, all your work is done in this Working Directory.
- Once your work reaches your goal, your changes are added to the Staging Area.
- Now your Staging Area contains everything you want to commit, you can save changes to the git repository.
Resume
part | description |
---|---|
working directory | create, edit and delete files |
staging area | changes that you made in working directory |
git repository | where all changes are storaged |
Setup
Before you use git, you need to setup your name and email.
Setting up name and email
git config --global user.name "Liz Umgeher"
git config --global user.email "liz@umgeher.org"
Create a repository
git init
Clone a repository
git clone [url/path]
Add a file
git add file
Remove a file
git rm file
Checking status
git status
Commit changes
git commit
Resume: basic commands
command | description |
---|---|
git add | add files to the staging area |
git diff | show the difference between the working directory and the staging area |
git init | create a repository |
git log | display a list of all previus commits |
git status | show contents of the staging area |
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