Git

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This command is run in the standard Linux environment via the Terminal Activity. The GUI will probably not integrate comfortably with the XO Laptop's Sugar environment. Your user experience may vary considerably depending on the established environment and the other programs running on the laptop, may need re-installation after an OS Update. See the Linux software category for other commands.

Description

Git is a version control ("revision control") system for programmers used to track and manage changes to code. It happens to be a decentralized system, with no "master" tree, and was originally written by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel sources.

Running

Git Commands

To get a project's code for the first time, use "git clone" :

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/<project-directory> (To get the code)

For instance:

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/activities/epals 
    OR 
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/activities/epals 

You can update the code as follows:

git-pull (To update the code)
git-status -a  (To see the status of your commits)
git-checkout -- (To undo your commits)
git checkout HEAD -- filename (To replace filename with the one at HEAD)

For example, to clone the Sugar repository:

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar

Git for OLPC

To get a project of yours hosted in our Git instance, see Project hosting.

OLPC GIT: http://dev.laptop.org/  (for tracking and submitting bugs and tasks)

    Wiki: http://dev.laptop.org/wiki
 Roadmap: http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap
 Sources: http://dev.laptop.org/browser
 Tickets: http://dev.laptop.org/query

Further Resources

• Download git-core or

• Read more about git on Wikipedia
• Freedesktop Git
• Using a central git tree
• Importing your project
• Creating a personal git tree