Details admin System Administration & Configuration 21 October 2016
Git is a version control system which means that it allows you to keep track of your code or any kind of text throughout the development. Meaning, you can rewind back and forward to any stage of the code development. Without going into much detail, this is done mainly via few basic commands:
clone, add,commit, push and pull. There are obviously more commands available, but these are the basic commands which we are going to discuss in this short git how-to. Before you begin, make sure that git command is available on your system. If not, on Ubuntu or Debian Linux you will install it as root user by a following linux command:
# apt-get install gitImagine
git as a centralized repository of your code/text which may and very often is shared among many other developers. Let's get started by cloning my existing git repository: $ git clone https://This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /linuxconfig/linuxconfig.org.git Cloning into 'linuxconfig.org'... Password for 'https://This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.': warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. Checking connectivity... done.I have provided my password and the above
git clone command downloaded all files available in that repository. At the moment the repository is empty: $ cd linuxconfig.org/ $ lsNext, I'm going to write some simple text and store it into a text file called
mycode.txt: $ echo HELLO WORLD > mycode.txt $ cat mycode.txt HELLO WORLDBefore the
mycode.txt becomes a part of our repository it needs to be added to repository. This is done by use of add command: $ git add *The asterisk sign means add all files ( I'm just too lazy to be explicit ). Now we create a first milestone in our development, hence we commit the code using the
commit command: $ git commit -m "My genius first line of code" [master (root-commit) 01b23f7] My genius first line of code 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 mycode.txtAt this stage the code is part of our repository and we can go back to this milestone at any time using the commit number eg.
01b23f7 in the combination with a relevant command not to be discussed here. The -m option is a message attached to this commit describing what has been done. Although, our new code is committed, it still resides locally thus cannot be viewed by anybody else. From this reason we need to store our new commit to the centralized directory using push command: $ git push -u origin master Password for 'https://linuxconfig@bitbucket.org': Counting objects: 3, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 236 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) To https://linuxconfig@bitbucket.org/linuxconfig/linuxconfig.org.git * [new branch] master -> master Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.All done. Lastly, we will discuss
pull command which is used to fetch code from a centralized repository. Most of the time you will not be the only developer working on any project. In the meantime that you are having a break, some of your colleagues may have push new code into a repository, thus you need to keep it synced. This is done by pull command. $ git pull Password for 'https://This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.': Already up-to-date.No change, so I can keep working. Always try to perform
git pull before you start working. This way you have a better chance to avoid unnecessary need to code merge. From now on, you will be repeating the following lines all over: $ git pull HERE YOU DO YOUR WORK $ git add * $ git commit -m "some meaning description of the genius things you have done" $ git push -u origin master
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-virtual-network-interface-on-redhat-7-linux/99-linuxconfig-org/955-the-absolute-and-minimalistic-beginner-s-guide-to-git-version-control-system