GIT client

References

Concepts, tutorials and how-to:

• Short introduction: Git short guide
• Excellent "Git complete guide" (with videos): Visual Studio GIT howTo
• Complete and excellent introduction, all in 1 blog post: Become a Git pro in just one blog: a thorough guide to git architecture and command line interface

Official documentation:

• Official website: http://git-scm.com
• Help page: http://git-scm.com/book/en/
• GitHub wiki page: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/

Installation

apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev
apt-get install git git-doc git-gui

If you want to use GIT as your local SVN client:

apt-get install git-svn

If you want to browse the GIT repository in a local browser:

apt-get install gitweb

Configuration

Run the following commands a standard user, not root!

GLOBAL configuration

To apply settings for *every* projects:

git config --global user.name "guillaume.diaz"
git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
git config --global core.editor vim

Repository configuration

To apply settings for particular repository (recommended)

By doing so your credentials will never be asked again.

############
# Declare your identity
############
# Go at the root of your GIT repo (= your local clone)
git config user.name "guihome-diaz"
git config user.email "myemail@mydomain.com"


############
# Save credentials
############
# settings will be saved in ~/.git-credentials
$ git config credential.helper store

# adjust for each repostiory
$ git push http://example.com/repo.git
Username: <type your username>
Password: <type your password>
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source: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store


=Register SSH key=

If you'd like to register a SSH key to use with GIT, see the excellent GitHub documentation: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/ 



=Get project files=

Run the following commands a '''standard user''', not root!


* Clone an existing project
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git clone [url] [targetFolder]

Note that you can use HTTPS, SSH or SVN URLs.

• Perform operation using Git GUI

cd [my GIT repo]
git gui

Update files

• Check files status

git status

• Update files on local HEAD

git pull

Commit files

• Add file

git add [file]

• Commit

git commit -m "my comment"

• Send changes to the server

git push

Ignore files in GIT

For a complete list of files see: https://github.com/github/gitignore

Here is my .gitignore file.

Create a file called .gitignore to the root of your GIT repo.

cd [my GIT repo]
vim .gitignore

Insert the following code:

## generic files to ignore
*~
*.lock
*.DS_Store
*.swp
*.out
*.tmp
*.temp
build/

#java specific
*.class
target/

#maven
pom.xml.tag
pom.xml.releaseBackup
pom.xml.versionsBackup
pom.xml.next
release.properties

#netbeans ignore personal stuff 
nbproject/private/

#eclipse specifics
settings/
.project
.classpath
.checkstyle

#intelliJ
.idea/

#gradle
.gradle/
gradle-app.setting

You can find more example on https://github.com/github/gitignore