Git over here!What is it and what is it good for?

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What’s Version Control and why should I care?

Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later.

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And Linus was Like:

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And Linus was Like:

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Git INIT

To start using git in a directory

$ git init

Initialized empty Git repository in /your_dir_here

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Git ADD

“Hey git, start tracking my files!”

$ git add

Git now knows these exists for version controlling

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Git COMMIT

Click, click - make a snapshot!

$ git commit --message ”first commit”

Git made a new ‘savepoint’

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Git commit

$ git commit -m “First commit!”

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Git PUSH

To share your cool commits with others, you need to push your changes to the remote repository

$ git push (origin master)

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Git PULL

Update itself with new data from the remote repository

$ git pull

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Git CLONE

Github.com

Bazillions of repositories!

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$ git clone https://github/profile/reponame

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Further reading

Free Git Book! : http://git-scm.com/book

Interactive course: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git

Handy reference: http://gitref.org/index.html

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