This repository is stored on a web-based hosting service for version control, like GitHub. Git allows you to manage and version your project(s) in a 'repository'. Now that we've got Git installed, let's move on to the tutorial. Or you can type this command: brew install git Sudo apt-get install git Fedora sudo dnf install git CentOS sudo yum install git Arch Linux sudo pacman -Sy git Gentoo sudo emerge -ask -verbose dev-vcs/git How to Install Git on a Macĭownload and install the latest Git for Mac installer here. Here are the commands based on your Linux distro: Debian or Ubuntu sudo apt-get update How to Install Git on Windowsĭownload and install the latest Git for Windows Installer here. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git as well as adding more features for computer code.

GitHub, on the other hand, is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is intended to enforce coordination, collaboration, speed, and efficiency among developers. A smile on your face (Put up that smile friend ?)Īccording to Wikipedia, Git is a distributed version control system designed to track changes to a project (code) in software development.

Git installed (I'll still show you how).

Ability to type commands in the terminal.

In this article, I'll introduce you to the Git clone and Git branch workflows and I'll show you how you can clone a specific branch based on your needs. Since Linus Torvalds (the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel) created Git in 2005 for Linux kernel development, it has become the most widely used modern version control system in the world. They can also access or manipulate several parts of the code as they deem fit from different locations. Every developer has the full history and control of their code locally or remotely.

Unlike older centralized version control systems such as SVN and CVS, Git is distributed.

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