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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By: Ravishankar Somasundaram

Overview of this book

<div> <div>Git – is free software which enables you to maintain different versions of single or multiple files present inside a directory(folder), and allows you to switch back and forth between them at any given point of time. It also allows multiple people to work on the same file collaboratively or in parallel, without being connected to a server or any other centralized system continuously.<br /><br />This book is a step by step, practical guide, helping you learn the routine of version controlling all your content, every day. <br /><br />If you are an average computer user who wants to be able to maintain multiple versions of files and folders, or to go back and forth in time with respect to the files content – look no further. The workflow explained in this book will benefit anyone, no matter what kind of text or documentation they work on.<br /><br />This book will also benefit developers, administrators, analysts, architects and anyone else who wishes to perform simultaneous, collaborative work, or work in parallel on the same set of files. Git's advanced features are there to make your life easier.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Git: Version Control for Everyone Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Choosing your type – download your OS specific package


Like many other tools, Git can be downloaded from the Internet and the best part is it's free, thanks to the open source community. Git can be installed on a variety of operating systems such as Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. We will consider the top three operating systems in terms of user base in discussing our concepts:

  • Windows

  • Linux

  • Mac OS X

To start, you need to download your operating system specific Git package; we can get the list of downloadable packages from http://git-scm.com/downloads. Go ahead and download the latest stable release relevant to your OS, which you can find on the website, as shown in the following screenshot (Version 1.8.0.2 was the latest stable release at the time of writing this chapter):

Note

For those of you Linux and Mac users who enjoy using a command-line interface (CLI) mode to get things done, there's no need to go through the following procedures of downloading and installing via GUI. You can...