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Using Git

Using Git - Linux Tutorial

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Using Git

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- Okay, let's talk about Git a little bit. Why? Well, because Git is a very important solution that allows people to work together on software development projects. And apart from software developers nowadays it's used by so many people to get access to files. I'm using it myself in my courses as well. Now, Git services are provided through public services like GitHub and GitLab, or alternatively, you can use a private Git server yourself. And the good thing about it is that it allows independent developers to modify software components, after which they are proposed as a pull request and may be merged into the project. Git is really the heart of open source, and it's also used a lot to distribute files. And I would like to show you a quick demo how Git can be used to access files that have been distributed. So first we need to get client, sudo apt install git -y, will do that for you. And then, well, we can already start using git clone. That's how you create a copy of a remote git…

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