Git
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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
First, you'll need to fetch and install Git on your machine. The tarball with the latest version is always available at the git site, and you might find your distribution provides packages. You can expect that the OLPC servers will always be running close to the latest version of the git tools.
- In OpenSuSE
yast --install git
- In RedHat & XO Laptop
sudo yum install git
- In Ubuntu 7/Feisty and Debian Etch (and presumably earlier) "git" still refers to gitfm, an unrelated tool. To fix in feisty:
sudo apt-get install git-core cogito sudo update-alternatives --config git
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
To clone the PlayGo repository in the projects directory:
git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/PlayGo
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