How to Install and Configure Git on AlmaLinux 8

In the following Linux tutorial, you will learn how to install Git on AlmaLinux 8 in various methods.
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How to Install Git on Ubuntu

Here are simple and straightforward instructions on how to install Git on Ubuntu. Works for any Ubuntu version, including Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 21.10, and other Debian-based distros.
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How to Install Git Version Control System on Debian 11

Git is a distributed version control system that was originally developed by Linus Torvalds in 2005. It has since been made available as an open-source project, allowing for more people to contribute and use it across all platforms of development witho…

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft GitHub

GitHub is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git and offers its basic services without charge. But it is not open source which puts some organizations in a difficult position to migrate where they rely […]

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GitUI 0.17 Adds The Ability To Compare Commits, New Options Popup

GitUI, a fast terminal user interface for Git written in Rust, available for Linux, macOS and Windows, had a new release yesterday which adds new features like the ability to compare commits, new options popup, and more.
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How to Work With GitHub Flavored Markdown in Linux

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Markdown is a formatting language that is created for the web. The purpose of markdown is to make life easy when we are writing on…

Fixing git/github merge conflicts

Introduction In our previous article on the git version control system, we explained how we could modify our files in repositories in our GitHub account and then pull the changes from GitHub to the git repositories on our local system and keep the files in synchronization. Now, what if we modified the same piece of […]

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Pulling changes from GitHub to Git

Introduction In our previous article, we demonstrated how we would push our git repositories from our local system out to GitHub. In this article, we will demonstrate how we would actually make changes in a file within a repository on GitHub and then pull the changes/updates to our local machine.   Demonstration: I’ll continue to […]

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Git branches continued

Introduction In our previous article, we introduced you to the concept of branches in git. We explained what are branches and demonstrated how we could create a branch, switch to a different branch and delete a branch. In this article we will demonstrate how we use branches to prototype our work while keeping a functioning […]

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Git branches explained

Introduction Thus far we’ve explored different features of the GIT version control system like viewing a log of the git commit history, viewing differences between staged and committed versions of files. We also explained the concept of HEAD and explored how we could use the git checkout command to revert to previous versions of files […]

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Show a side-by-side git diff on any commit in tig using Meld

Side-by-side diffs are more readable to me than in-line diffs. Long time ago, I started using Meld to display them when working with git. But I always needed to manually specify branch or commit names. This week I finally spent some time and found a way to invoke Meld directly from tig, so that I … Continue reading Show a side-by-side git diff on any commit in tig using Meld →

Intro to Git

If you’re new to Git checkout https://www.linuxtechi.com/learn-git-command-examples-linux-part-1/ it’s a good starting point.

Misc git tips

Want to see if your branch is on the remote server? Want to see what branches are? Run git branch -av Not seeing your branch on the remote server, run git push origin BRANCH_NAME Added a file to .gitignore but you already checked it in? Run git rm –cached FILENAME Changing your origin server? Run git remote remove origin

Configuring git

git config –global user.name “USER_NAME” git config –global user.email “USER_EMAIL” and if you work with Windows files git config –global core.autocrlf false

Git – A better way to manage git with multi-users

Create a directory to store all your repos.  I like putting them in /var/git-repos cd into /var/git-repos (or whatever you called it) mkdir PROJECT_NAME.git cd PROJECT_NAME.git git init –bare Then Each user works locally (could be on their own system or could be in a personal directory on the same server). Run the following: mkdir PROJECT_NAME cd PROJECT_NAME git init if working on the same server you could use git remote add origin /var/git-repos/PROJECT_NAME.git if working remotely you could use […]

Git – problems with first push

No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. Perhaps you should specify a branch such as ‘master’. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Just run git push origin master Or if you get error: src refspec master does not match any. just do git commit -m “initial commit” git push origin master

Moving from Subversion to Git

Follow this guys instructions http://daneomatic.com/2010/11/01/svn-to-multiple-git-repos/

Insanely Awesome Web Interface for Your Git Repos

Almost 80-90 people visit How To: Install and Configure GitWeb everyday in search of setting up a web interface for their git repositories. Though gitweb is nice, it’s a bit painful to setup and the web interface is not that appealing. The other day I received this email from Klaus Silveira Hello Kulbir, I saw your article … →

Getting Started With Git

I have been using Git for years now and I am still a novice user. Actually, if you are an individual developer or work in a really small team, you don’t really need to go beyond using the basic stuff like cloning a repo, committing code, branching and pushing back to the origin repo. And … →

Summer Hacking

Summer has already started and we (a small group of current and ex-IIITians in Hyderabad) are planning to have some fun digging into Ruby on Rails and related technologies. If you are also interested in utilizing your summer in a productive and fun way, you can join us and share your knowledge while learning from … →