Book Image

Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
Book Image

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

Git remote


When the remote command is executed, Git lists down all the remotes added to the repository by reading it from the remote section of the local config file located at .git/config. An example of the content inside the config file is as follows:

[remote "capsource"]
url = https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/capsource/*

The name capsource was the alias we gave preceding the URL while adding a new remote to the repository. Under this section two reference parameters are captured:

Reference parameter

Description

url

This is the URL of the remote repository that you want to track, share, and get content from, within your repository.

Fetch

This is to convey to Git the refs (branches and tags) from the remote that are to be tracked.

By default, it tracks all refs from the remote repository specified by refs/heads/*. These are placed under your local repository's directory capsource located at refs/remotes/capsource/*.