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Git: Your New Best Friend [Server Side Essentials]

Git: Your New Best Friend [Server Side Essentials]
Introduction This article introduces version control and Git without assuming you have any prior knowledge or programming experience. Because of its introductory nature, certain details are simplified or omitted and the use of the Git Graphical User Interface (Git GUI) is emphasized. Afterwards the reader should be able to use Git for basic version control and know where to locate further information. Version control is the process of recording the history of changes to files as they are modified. protect against changes – accidental or otherwise – and be able to access a known good version of a filetrack down problems and make fixes to previous versions of filesallow more than one person to modify project files simultaneously (programmers refer to this as parallel development)retrieve an older set of files (if requested by a customer or manager, for example) Git runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX. Concepts Installing Git Starting to Use Git $ git init The Git Index Configuration <! ...

Gitorious How to Git Open Atrium | UV Media UPDATE: "Open Atrium has moved from its single monolitic repository to an install profile and a drush make based build system. This is a change that primarily effects developers. The complete, ready to install, download will continue to be offered at Details here. Thanks, Jeff. I've been playing around with the Open Atrium project (Features rule!) I went to download the latest version, but noticed that (as of December 31) it hadn't been updated with the latest version of Drupal core. It turns out that the project repository is hosted at GitHub. Installing Git The following steps apply to installing on a Debian-based Linux distro, which is fine if you use it as your desktop or if you like VirtualBox as much as I do. Updating Open Atrium Now all I have to do to update to the latest code base is (from inside the project directory):[chrisng@lampbuntu:~/public_html/Atrium] git pull Already up-to-date.

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