GIT Starter

Installing GIT

For GIT installation you can go to GIT Download section: https://git-scm.com/downloads.

For Linux and Unix

Debian/Ubuntu

For the latest stable version for your release of Debian/Ubuntu

# apt-get install git

For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version

# add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa # apt update; apt install git

Fedora

# yum install git (up to Fedora 21)

# dnf install git (Fedora 22 and later)

Gentoo

# emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git

Arch Linux

# pacman -S git

openSUSE

# zypper install git

Mageia

# urpmi git

Nix/NixOS

# nix-env -i git

FreeBSD

# pkg install git

Solaris 9/10/11 (OpenCSW)

# pkgutil -i git

Solaris 11 Express

# pkg install developer/versioning/git

OpenBSD

# pkg_add git

Alpine

$ apk add git

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux, et al.

RHEL and derivatives typically ship older versions of git. You can download a tarball and build from source, or use a 3rd-party repository such as the IUS Community Project to obtain a more recent version of git.

Slitaz

$ tazpkg get-install git

For Windows

Go to https://git-scm.com/download/win, download should automatically start which will be of format "exe" file.

Other versions are also listed like 32 bit or 64 bit.

Mac OS

Homebrew

Install homebrew if you don't already have it, then:

$ brew install git

XCode

Apple ships a binary package of Git with XCode.

Binary installer

Tim Harper provides an installer for Git. The latest version is 2.23.0, which was released 9 months ago, on 2019-09-03.

Building from Source

If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on kernel.org. The latest version is 2.26.2.

In case want to update the git version

If you already have git installed and you want to update, you can get the latest by typing below in git bash:

git clone https://github.com/git/git

Git Cheat Sheet

Initializing repository - git init
Cloning existing repository - git clone https://github.com/tekgainers/tekgainers-tut.git
Check status of your repo - git status
Add files - git add HelloWorld.java
Commiting your changes - git commit -m "Task 1: I am the message for this commit"
View commit history - git log --since=3.weeks
List remote servers - git remot, append -v to get the URLs to which they point.
Pushing to remote repo - git push <remote> <branch> e.g., git push origin master
Create a new Branch - git branch <branch-name>
Switch branches - git checkout branch-name
Merging to master - git checkout master git merge <branch-name>
List current branches - git branch
Fetch new code on remote - git fetch (this will not do automatic merging)
Fetch new code and merge in current branch - git pull

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