Git basic

Rabu, 7 September 2011, 11:22 pm0

I’m a noob in using Git, and I’m using Github to host some of the code I wrote. Here are some basic commands to host a project with Github (or using Git revision control generally) (sometimes I forgot the command or the order of which command goes first)

Global setup:

Set up git

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email myemail@maildomain.com

Next steps:

mkdir project-name
cd project-name
git init
touch README
git add README
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/project-name.git
git push -u origin master

Existing Git Repo?

cd existing_git_repo
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/project-name.git
git push -u origin master

To commit changes (and optionally push changes to Github)

git add .
git commit -m 'commit message'
git push -u origin master

Common SVN users may find it confusing when using Git. Here’s some of the tips:

• There are no centralized server or repo. You are the server / repo
• In SVN, what’s in your computer is working copy and the center for committing changes is the repository, In Git, your working copy is your repository.
• In SVN, project members checked out a working copy and commit changes to a centralized repository. In Git, everyone in a project can be the repository, can checkout (pull) and commit (push) changes to each other
  (Note: In Git, ‘checkout’ is called `pull`, ‘commit’ is saving changes to your own repository, ‘push’ is sending and merging changes to remote repository