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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 a remote origin using CLI mode


Linking or adding a remote origin to your repository (yet another addition to your Git lingo) is a simple process. Fire up your command-line interface and enter the following commands:

cd /path/to/your/Workbench/repo
git remote add origin https://your_bitbucket_repo_identity_here/online_workbench.git
git push -u origin master

After the execution of the git push command you will be prompted for your Bitbucket account password to complete the process as follows:

If you see a similar message in your window, the linkage cum transfer was successful.

What just happened?

We just created a remote link for our Workbench repository with the online_workbench repository and pushed our files to it making them available online, thus opening the door for a distributed file system, using the CLI mode.

git remote add is the command to add a Git repository identified by its path to your present repository's configuration file so that your changes...