Revision as of 15:42, 19 June 2018

Overview | Source Control Management (SCM)
Git

Install and Configure

Done on CentOS 7. Serves as an agentless server and client. You can use this package to create a local repository as well as other git functions.

~$ yum install git

Setup global parameters

~$ sudo git config --global user.name "global username"
~$ sudo git config --global user.email "email address"
~$ sudo git config --system core.editor "/bin/vim"

Initializing Local Repo

Create a local directory with nothing in it. This is called initializing the repository

~$ mkdir ~/repo
~$ git init ~/repo
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/repo/.git/

Set repo user & email, if you want something different from the global.

~$ git config user.name "user"
~$ git config user.email "[email protected]"

Commands

add

adds a new file to the repo.

~$ git add filename
~$ git add *    ---- adds everything in the current directory
~$ git add .     ---- adds everything in the current directory

status

shows the current status of the git repository

~$ git status

commit

Commits the changes to the repo

~$ git commit -m "comment on commit"

commit anything that is staged, but not anything that is untracked.

~$ git commit -a

delete

deletes a file from the git repo. you must delete the file first.

rm filename
~$ git rm filename