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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.
Installation
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