Installing Git

This blog provides guidance to install git on  the Ubuntu. After that we will follow the instructions to setup the project on the local machine.

1.  Press Ctrl + Alt + T on your Ubuntu machine. This will pops up the terminal in your machines. There are multiple ways to open a terminal. Please note that using commands is powerful and a good practice, therefore we will stick to commands rather than GUI.                                                           
2. Type in the following command
• sudo apt-get install git-core
3. Verify the successful installation by command, which should fetch you installation path
• which git
4. Configure your username using following command
• git config --global user.name  "yourname"
5. Configure your email using following command
• git config --global user.email "your@email.address"
6. Configure your diff tool by setting it upto meld (you can also use other editors, I prefer meld)
• git config --global merge.tool meld
7. Cloning the project in your preferred directory 
• git clone git@github.com:geekgugi/mSIS.git
8. Change your branch (by default it will be pointing master branch)  to dev branch by following command
• git checkout -b dev -t origin/dev
9. We are ready to launch for few git commands
• git branch -a shows the branch you are in
• git status shows changes you have made
• git commit used to commit your changes to local 
• git log shows commit done by other developers

For more details,  you can go through http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started which will give you clear idea to work with git.