Step 1 # Install git
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Confirm Git the installation . run the following command to verify which version of git is installed.
git –version
To get help run the following command in command line: (where verb = config, add, commit, etc.)
git help verb
Step 2 # Set Up and configure Git
After the installation of git it is advisable to do some basic git configuration. This configuration will be helpful when you will commit your code. After this basic git configuration helps to generate the infomation about the person who have commited the code.
By running the following commands you can set these config options in Git.
git config –global user.name “your name”
git config –global user.email “[email protected]”
Quick trick about line endings: Windows: git config –global core.autocrlf true
Mac/Linux: git config –global core.autocrlf input
We can view all the configuration that have been done by providing following commands:
git config –list
############### Installation done, now add a ssh key & clone the working repositories
To generate ssh key:
ssh-keygen
To copy the newly generated ssh key:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
to clone a repository:
git clone [email protected]:fieldnation/fieldnation.git
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