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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 – resume your work from anywhere using GUI mode


Here, we are reaping the benefits for what we did earlier by creating an online repository, remoting to it, and syncing our local files to the online one. Resuming your work on any machine you lay your hands on is an easy three-phase process.

  1. Clone the repository from the server.

    i. Open Git GUI and select the Clone Existing Repository option as shown in the following screenshot:

    ii. This leads you to the respective window where you are prompted for Source Location and Target Directory where you enter the values as follows:

    Field name

    Value

    Source location

    https://[email protected]/username/online_workbench.git

    Target Directory

    /Path/where/you/want/to/have/the_cloned_repository_for_ease_of_work

    This is shown in the following screenshot; click on the Clone button:

    iii. Once the clone process starts you will be prompted for your Bitbucket account password. Upon successful authentication, you will have a cloned...