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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 – initiation in GUI mode


To create/initiate a repository, perform the following steps:

  1. Open Git Gui from your desktop or from your applications menu and select the option Create New Repository, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Git will present you with a new screen, expecting from you the location of the directory that you want to make a repository. So click the on the Browse button, select our Workbench directory from the desktop, and click on the Create button.

  3. You should get a screen as follows:

    Now don't close this window; we shall continue from this screen for our remaining concepts.

What just happened?

You have successfully commanded Git to monitor your Workbench directory and its contents.

The previous image showed the master page, which we will be interacting with very often. It consists of four panes; let's call them the following:

  • Unstaged Changes pane (top left)

  • Staged Changes pane (bottom left)

  • Differential Content pane (top right)

  • Action pane (bottom right...