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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

Time for action – installing Git on Windows


Perform the following steps:

  1. Double-click on the downloaded setup file to get started with the installation.

  2. The first and second steps of the installation process are self-explanatory. It first greets you with a welcome message and informs you about the "safe to follow" procedures before installation, that is, to close all other opened applications before continuing (just to avoid the remote chance of any shared dll/exe being overridden or a simple case of your system running out of memory, which is required in large amounts whenever you perform an installation). Then it shows you the details about the GNU public license Version 2 by which our Git is governed.

    Note

    To get to know more about what you can and cannot do with the software package, go ahead and read it.

  3. Clicking on the Next button on the screen brings us to the following screen, which gets your preferred location for the installation:

    The default location is inside the Program Files...