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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 – adding files to your directory (GUI and CLI mode)


Let's create a Word document called content.docx that contains the text "I love working with Git. It's a simple, fast, and superb version control system" to learn and put in practice the functionalities mentioned at the beginning of our chapter (people who are not able to create a .docx file can proceed with any other document format such as .odt, .txt, and so on).

Git will report to you about the files that have been added to our repository and will stand by for your instructions to proceed. Now we can go ahead and tell Git to monitor these files for changes by performing the steps that we will discuss next.

If you are using GUI mode, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Rescan button (or press F5 on your keyboard) present in the Action pane.

  2. Click on the page-like icon next to the filename to push the file to the Staged Changes pane.

If you are using the CLI mode , use the following commands:

git status
git add content...