Version Control System - Git

VCS helps manages changes in source code with timestamp.

We can mainly categorized them asL

Centralized: For example:subversion

Distributed: For example: git.

GIT:

To Use git, we need to initialize it with command:git init

e.g. $git  init <repo-name>

When you made code changes, then first you need to add your changes to staging are in git, thru:

git add <file or dir>

Then you can commit the changes , thru:

git commit -m "msg"

You can amend your commit msg thru:

git commit --amend

After commit to push changes to remote, we can create remote pointer:

git remote add <origin> <remote-repo-url>

which we can check with

git remote -v

Now we can push our committed changes to remore as:

git push origin main

If we do not want our changes to be included in anywhere in git so we can quickly execute command:

git stash

Git suggests to use branching which helps in parallel development of many features.

For branching use commands:

git branch <name>

git checkout <name>

But we can do this in one step:

git checkout -b <branch-name>

Advance features:

Once you are comfortable with basic features, then one  can use git's advanced features like:

  squash,

 cherry-pick (3-way and fast-forward)

  merge