GIT client

References

• 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!

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

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

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

• Check files status

git status

• Add file

git add [file]

• Commit

git commit -m "my comment"

Ignore files in GIT

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

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