Git Setup

Install on windows

Maybe it’s complicated, but I don’t use windows for several years. But with the big news for ubuntu in windows10, everything may become easy.

Install on Mac OS X or Linux

I don’t want to tell you, because it’s so easy.

Use command line

If you are in Windows

• Go to the directory you want to work in, and click your right mouse and choose git bash.
• Input ‘git’ to see the usage

if you are in Mac OS X or Linux

• Input ‘git’ to see the usage

if should look like this

$ git
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p | --paginate | --no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]

First command: set up your personal info

$ git config --global user.name [username]
$ git config --global user.email [email]

The commands above will let the git know who you are. the global option will set the attribute globally.

Remove the global will set the attribute inside your project.

The basic commands you have to know

Initialize a repository

git init

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/sway/WebProj/test-project/.git/

This command will initialize a repository in current directory.

$ ls -a
.    ..   .git

And as you see, a new subdirectory named .git was created in current directory which contains all your repository files.

Clone an existing repository

git clone [url]

$ git clone https://github.com/dyweb/web-stuff
remote: Counting objects: 695, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 695 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 684
Receiving objects: 100% (695/695), 1.56 MiB | 224.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (320/320), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

This will copy the a existing remote repository into your local and every version of every file for the history of the project will be pulled down.

Checking the status of the repository

git status

$ git status

As the title says, this command will show you current status of the repository.