GIT client

References

Concepts, tutorials and how-to:

• Short introduction: Git short guide
• Excellent "Git complete guide" (with videos): Visual Studio GIT howTo
• Complete and excellent introduction, all in 1 blog post: Become a Git pro in just one blog: a thorough guide to git architecture and command line interface

Official documentation:

• Official website: http://git-scm.com
• Help page: http://git-scm.com/book/en/
• GitHub wiki page: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/

Installation

See Git setup

Usage

See

• GIT client (basic usage)
• GIT client European Parliament

Get project files

Run the following commands a standard user, not root!

• Clone an existing project

git clone [url] [targetFolder]

Note that you can use HTTPS, SSH or SVN URLs.

• Perform operation using Git GUI

cd [my GIT repo]
git gui

Update files

• Check files status

git status

• Update files on local HEAD

git pull

Commit files

• Add file

git add [file]

• Commit

git commit -m "my comment"

• Send changes to the server

git push

Ignore files in GIT

For a complete list of files see: https://github.com/github/gitignore

Here is my .gitignore file.

Create a file called .gitignore to the root of your GIT repo.

cd [my GIT repo]
vim .gitignore

Insert the following code:

## generic files to ignore
*~
*.lock
*.DS_Store
*.swp
*.out
*.tmp
*.temp
build/

#java specific
*.class
target/

#maven
pom.xml.tag
pom.xml.releaseBackup
pom.xml.versionsBackup
pom.xml.next
release.properties

#netbeans ignore personal stuff 
nbproject/private/

#eclipse specifics
settings/
.project
.classpath
.checkstyle

#intelliJ
.idea/

#gradle
.gradle/
gradle-app.setting

You can find more example on https://github.com/github/gitignore