A basic Git Tutorial

Generic Resources about Git

All about Git - official page

Some good video talks about http:

• Linus Torvalds: History&Concepts
• Scott Chacon: Git basics, live examples
• Randal Schwartz: Git basics, descriptional
• Jesica Kerr: Git basics, descriptional

A good book of the subject:

• Pro-Git

Install Git

On Windows

Install MySysGit (Be sure to check the install with "Git bash here" support)

On Linux

Use your package manager to install git.

Basic Functions

Cloning a repo to your hard drive

The most basic form of this command is:

$ git clone --recursive http://github.com/{username}/{reponame}

A slightly better form is to specify the folder name of the local repo:

$ git clone --recursive http://github.com/{username}/{reponame} {localreponame}

In the case of mangosZero this would be a valid command to clone it correctly to a folder called 0server

$ git clone --recursive http://github.com/mangoszero/server serverZero

Sometimes you may want to clone a specific branch i.e. develop21

$ git clone --recursive http://github.com/{username}/{reponame} -b develop21 {localreponame}

Updating an existing repo with the latest source

From the folder containing the source, type:

$ git pull --recurse-submodules

This will pull in all updated files, you can then proceed to build using Visual Studio or cmake/make on Linux.