Introduction to Git

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Create a repository (repo)

GitHub create a repo

Basic Git commands

git
git help tutorial

git command	Definition
clone	Clone a repository into a new directory
init	Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
add	Add file contents to the index
status	Show the working tree status
commit	Record changes to the repository
fetch	Download objects and refs from another repository
pull	Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch
push	Update remote refs along with associated objects

Command Prompt/Terminal

Configure Git

[Windows, Linux & Mac]

git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com

Saving your GitHub password with Git

wincred (GUI)

[Windows]

git config --global credential.helper wincred

Cache

[Windows, Linux & Mac] Turn on the credential helper so that Git will save your password in memory for some time. By default, Git will cache your password for 15 minutes.

Set git to use the credential memory cache

git config --global credential.helper cache

To change the default password cache timeout

Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds):

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'

Make a directory to host your repository

[Windows]

mkdir Repository\CosFNL\GitIntro

[Linux & Mac]

mkdir -p ~/Repository/CosFNL/GitIntro

[Windows]

cd Repository\CosFNL\GitIntro

[Linux & Mac]

cd Repository/CosFNL/GitIntro/

[Windows, Linux & Mac]

git init

Initialized empty Git repository...

git add Readme.md

git commit -m "First commit"

[master (root-commit) 873e7b8] First commit
 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Readme.md

git remote add origin https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro.git
git push -u origin master


Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 1.21 KiB | 1.21 MiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'master' on GitHub by visiting:
remote:      https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro/pull/new/master
remote:
To https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.

Using Git for collaboration

Git Download

Resources

Pro Git Book

Git Notes For Professionals

Connect to COS FNL repository

https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro.git

…or create a new repository on the command line echo "# GitIntro" >> README.md git init git add README.md git commit -m "first commit" git remote add origin https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro.git git push -u origin master

…or push an existing repository from the command line git remote add origin https://github.com/CosFNL/GitIntro.git git push -u origin master

…or import code from another repository You can initialize this repository with code from a Subversion, Mercurial, or TFS project.