If we want to work and prosper with Git, we have to grasp its principles. There are theories and some alternatives on how we can manage our Puppet code with Git in a safe and comfortable way.
In this section, we will review:
Git's basic principles and commands
Some useful Git hooks
Two different workflows for Puppet code management with Git
Git is generally available as a native package in every modern OS. Once we have installed it, we can configure our name and e-mail (that will appear in all our commits) with the following:
git config --global user.name "Alessandro Franceschi" git config --global user.email [email protected]
These commands simply create the relevant entries in the ~/.gitconfig file. We can add more configurations by either editing this file directly or with the git config command.
To create a Git repository, we just have to move to the directory that we want to track and simply type
git init. This command initializes a repository and...