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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By : Thomas Deuling
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Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

By: Thomas Deuling

Overview of this book

<p>Aptana Studio 3 is a powerful web development IDE based on the Eclipse platform and provides many innovative technologies and features for developing effective, modern hi-standard web-applications. Aptana has been around since 2008 and it provides language support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, and many others by using plugins.<br /><br />"Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide" is packed with the author’s experience of several years developing with Aptana Studio. It's not just a powerful guide, it's a practical, hands-on introduction to Aptana Studio as a whole. If you want to harness Aptana Studio to enhance your web-development productivity, then read this book.<br /><br />You will start by setting up your own installation of Aptana Studio, and will be guided step-by-step through the various stages of developing with Aptana Studio.<br /><br />You will learn how to manage all your work in workspaces and projects, and how you can optimize your projects depending on the nature of the project.<br /><br />In addition, you will be taught how to work on remote servers or manage your source code with Git and SVN.<br /><br />Finally, you will have a fully configured IDE and be equipped with the knowledge about how to work and manage large web-projects.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Working with Git


Just like SVN, Git is a version control and source code management system, and was initially developed by Linus Torvalds. The difference between SVN and Git is that Git is a distributed version control and SVN is a centralized version control.

Aptana Studio is shipped with a built-in support for Git source control. However, if you are using a Linux-based operating system, you have to install the Git package manually. You can use the following command to do this:

apt-get install git

If you are using a Windows-based operating system, you don't need to install any additional components. Aptana Studio is pre-packaged with portable Git and so you can start using Git with Aptana Studio immediately.

Cloning a Git Repository and creating a new project with this clone can be done in different ways. At this point, we will take a look at the fastest way to do this.

Tip

What is happening?

Like the SVN Processes, the Git Processes are also executed on the console. Therefore, there will be...