Chin Lee

After Hosting Your Own Git Repositories I have been thinking of continuing on topics about Git, although I am not an expert. Please point out and comments if you have a better idea or anything to improve. Thanks!

Introduce Yourself to Git

Setting up your display name and email address show in Git commits.

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

You have to do this once and Git will remember you every time you commit your works.

Copy of the Project

With git clone you can simply get a copy of the project you want to work on.

$ git clone [email protected]:test.git
Cloning into test...
[email protected]'s password:
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
$ cd test
$ ls -a
.		..		.git		README		index.html

Add Files into Project

With git add you are able to add files to the project’s staging area.

$ echo "<?php phpinfo();" > info.php
$ ls -a
.		..		.git		README		index.html	info.php
$ git status -s
?? info.php
$ git add info.php
$ git status -s
A  info.php
$ git diff HEAD
diff --git a/info.php b/info.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4837a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/info.php
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<?php phpinfo();

Create Snapshot of the Staging Area

After adding files into staging area, you can now use git commit to create snapshot of the changes.

$ git commit -a -m 'add info file'
[master a591ab6] add info file
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 info.php

Push Commits to Remote Server

Commits are done locally before a git push command is given.

$ git push
[email protected]'s password: 
Counting objects: 4, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 320 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:test.git
   c62c56b..a591ab6  master -> master

Fetching Updates from Remote Server

Power of the collaboration system, with git pull your local codes are to be sync’ed with other collaborators.

$ git pull
[email protected]'s password: 
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From server.com:test
   a591ab6..5781fe7  master     -> origin/master
Updating a591ab6..5781fe7
Fast-forward
 info.php |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

The command git pull combines git fetch with git merge commands, where will fetch the updates and merge into your local codes.