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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 Linux


As we discussed earlier, we are going to perform a Git installation on a Linux operating system with the help of your distribution's inbuilt graphical software management system. In this tutorial I have used a distribution called Ubuntu, which is based (downstream) on the famous Debian operating system.

In here the software management system is called synaptic. Perform the following steps:

  1. Open up the run utility prompt by pressing Alt + F2 and type synaptic.

  2. Matching tools automatically get displayed below; let's click on the first one, which says synaptic-pkexec. This pops up an authentication dialog box, since the installation requires elevated privileges, as stated earlier. So give it your password that has administrative access and click on Authenticate.

  3. This should open up the Synaptic Package Manager window, which shows you the available packages on the centre pane and available repository sources on the left. Let's type...