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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 CLI mode


For those who like to hear the sounds of more keystrokes instead of clicks, there's always command-line interface (CLI) mode.

There has been a constant increase in the percentage of people who are quick with keyboard's key strokes, giving more priority to performing operations using keystrokes instead of mouse clicks wherever possible. This is also a main reason why Gmail introduced shortcut keys for almost all of its functions.

To create or initiate the repository using the command-line interface mode you need to do the following:

  1. Open your shell (command prompt in Windows or Terminal/Console in Mac/Linux).

  2. Go to your Workbench directory on your desktop using the cd (change directory) command.

  3. Once you are inside the Workbench directory type git init and hit Enter to complete the initiation process.

  4. You should get a status message from Git saying Initialized empty Git repository in your/path/to/Workbench/directory/goes/here.

Ah! The sound of keystrokes...