Git – Distributed Version Control Systems

• Git is a distributed version control system developed by linus torvalds
• Pros:
  • Simplicity
• Cons:
  • Not fast with large binary files.
• Git is installed on all the systems
• If you want to make any system/node to act as a server we need a daemon (service) which
  • accepts the incoming requests
  • does the user management
    
• Git is a Source Code Repository,
  • It maintains history
  • It maintains metadata

Version Control System Features

• Version control system is a software which is a source code Repository with features such as
  • Multi-user support
  • History
  • Support for multiple releases/customers in a way to work in parallel in same repository
  • User management

Git Basic Workflow in local system

• In Git we have 3 areas in Repository
  • Working Tree: Here we make changes
  • Staging Area: Here we move/categorize changes
  • Local Repo: Here we seal the changes for one feature/defect as a commit
    

Installing Git

• Refer Here and pickup the setup for windows
• Linux

# for debian
sudo apt install git -y
# for redhat
sudo yum install git -y

• Mac: Open terminal

# install homebrew
# https://brew.sh/
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

brew install git 

lets create a repository

• Create a folder and execute git init