GIT: How to set or change default editor?
Every user have their favorate editor. Some use VI other uses emacs. This post will help you on how to see what is the text editor in GIT and how change it to your favorate editor. Changing an editor...
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hen we are using GIT, its advaisable to set username and e-mail so that we no need to set them everytime we use GIT to do changes. This post will show you on how to set username and e-mail for editing...
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6 GIT diff command examples
Introduction to git diff command In our last article on working with the git distributed version control system, we explained how to use the git log command to track changes and updates made to our...
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How to add content to a local git repository in Linux?
Introduction In our previous article on the git version control system, we explained step by step how to create a local git repository. In this article, we will demonstrate how to add content to the...
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git add command explained with examples
Introduction In our last article, we explained how to add content to a local git repository. There we used the git add command to add the README.md file to the repository we initialized with git. In...
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git log command explained with examples
Introduction In our previous articles on working with the git version control system, we explained how to initialize a local git repository, add content to it and we also worked with the git add in...
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Using HEAD and git commit hash to differentiate between committed file versions
Introduction In an earlier article, we showed you how to look at differences between a file after you’ve made a change to it. In this article, we will talk about how to view differences between...
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git checkout command explained
Introduction In our previous article on working with the git version control system, we explained and familiarized the concept of the HEAD. In this article, we introduce you to the git checkout...
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git: What is detached HEAD state?
Introduction In our previous article on working with the git version control system, we explained how to use the git checkout command to retrieve previously committed versions of files from the git...
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Using .gitignore to prevent files from being tracked
Introduction While working on our projects and using a version control system we could create and make use of a wide variety of different types of files. We may not want to keep track of every single...
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Github and git integration
Introduction In the articles we’ve posted thus far, we’ve worked with git and saved changes by making commits on our local system. This is one way to use git i.e like a local backup system wherein we...
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GitHub and git integration: using ssh instead of https
Introduction In our last article, we demonstrated how we could mirror our repository from our local computer to GitHub and use https to push our repository data from our local computer to GitHub. In...
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Working with branches in git (part 1)
Introduction Thus far we’ve explored different features of the GIT version control system like viewing a log of the git commit history, viewing differences between staged...
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Working with branches in git (part 2)
Introduction In our previous article, we introduced you to the concept of branches in git. We explained what are branches and demonstrated how we could create a branch,...
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Pulling changes from GitHub to Git
Introduction In our previous article, we demonstrated how we would push our git repositories from our local system out to GitHub. In this article, we will demonstrate how we would actually make...
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Fixing git/github merge conflicts
Introduction In our previous article on the git version control system, we explained how we could modify our files in repositories in our GitHub account and then pull the changes from GitHub to the...
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