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Git is the version control system (VCS) coded by Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel) after being criticized for using the proprietary BitKeeper with the Linux kernel. Git is now used to maintain sources for the Linux kernel as well as thousands of other projects, including Pacman, Arch's package manager.

There is extensive documentation, including guides and tutorials, available from the official web site.

Installation

git can be installed with pacman from the official repositories. If you care about using Git with other VCS software, mail servers, or using Git's GUI, pay close attention to the optional dependencies.

Bash completion (e.g. hitting Template:Keypress to complete commands you are typing) should work if you add this line to your ~/.bashrc file:

source /usr/share/git/completion/git-completion.bash

Alternatively, you can install the bash-completion package to load the completions automatically for new shells.

If you want to use Git's built-in GUI (eg. gitk or git gui) you should install the tk package, or you will get a rather cryptic message:

/usr/bin/gitk: line 3: exec: wish: not found.

Configuration

Git reads its configuration from a few INI type configuration files. In each git repository .git/config is used for configuration options specific to that repository. Per-user ("global") configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig is used as a fall-back from the repository configuration. You can edit the files directly but the preferred method is to use the git-config utility. For example,

$ git config --global core.editor "nano -w"

adds editor = nano -w to the [core] section of your ~/.gitconfig file.

The man page for the git-config utility has a fairly long list of variables which can be set.

Here are some more basic configurations you will probably want:

$ git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "your_email@youremail.com"
$ git config --global color.ui true

Cheatsheet

Parts from everywhere, much from the wonderful tutorial here: http://schacon.github.com/git/gittutorial.html

Additionally see Super Quick Git Guide.

Pull the network scripts with

git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git

Update an existing clone

git pull origin

Commit changes

git commit -a -m "changelog message"

To create a new branch

git branch somebranch

Change to a different branch

git checkout differentbranch

Merge a branch to current active branch

git merge somebranch

Delete a branch

git branch -d somebranch

Push a local branch or tag to a remote repository

git push REMOTENAME BRANCHNAME

Delete a branch or tag in a remote repository

git push REMOTENAME :BRANCHNAME

Diff between two branches

git diff master..somebranch

Diff between two commit IDs (found in git log)

git diff e9780c7cba2855350e914fde227a79bb63c1351d..8b014e40346b38b3b9bfc41359b4e8a68e804c0d

Diff between the last two commits

git diff HEAD^ HEAD

Patchset between two branches (follows same syntax as git diff afaik)

git format-patch master..somebranch

Or better: http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine#head-f7a29e7ed999b5924748a60c5a1cd4a019032d26

git format-patch -o out origin

Set nano as default editor

git config --global core.editor "nano -w"

Git Prompt

The Git package comes with a prompt script. To enable the prompt addition you will need to source the git-prompt.sh script and add $(__git_ps1 " (%s)") to you PS1 variable.

• Copy /usr/share/git/git-prompt.sh to your home directory (e.g. ~/.git-prompt.sh).
• Add the following line to your .bashrc/.zshrc:

source ~/.git-prompt.sh

• For Bash:

PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '

• For zsh:

PS1='[%n@%m %c$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '

The %s is replaced by the current branch name. The git information is displayed only if you are navigating in a git repository. You can enable extra information by setting and exporting certain variables to a non-empty value as shown in the following table:

In addition you can set the GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM variable to "auto" in order to see < if you are behind upstream, > if you are ahead and <> if you have diverged.

Transfer Protocols

Smart HTTP

Since version 1.6.6 git is able to use the HTTP(S) protocol as efficiently as SSH or GIT by utilizing the git-http-backend. Furthermore it is not only possible to clone or pull from repositories, but also to push into repositories over HTTP(S).

The setup for this is rather simple as all you need to have installed is the Apache web server (with mod_cgi, mod_alias, and mod_env enabled) and of course, git:

# pacman -S apache git

Once you have your basic setup up and running, add the following to your Apache's config usually located at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

<Directory "/usr/lib/git-core*">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /srv/git
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/

The above example config assumes that your git repositories are located at /srv/git and that you want to access them via something like http(s)://your_address.tld/git/your_repo.git. Feel free to customize this to your needs.

For more detailed documentation, visit the following links:

• http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.10.1/git-http-backend.html

Git SSH

You first need to have a public SSH key. For that follow the guide at Using SSH Keys. To set up SSH itself, you need to follow the SSH guide. This assumes you have a public SSH key now and that your SSH is working. Open your SSH key in your favorite editor (default public key name is ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub), and copy its content (Template:Keypress). Now go to your user where you have made your Git repository, since we now need to allow that SSH key to log in on that user to access the Git repository. Open ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in your favorite editor, and paste the contents of id_rsa.pub in it. Be sure it is all on one line! That is important! It should look somewhat like this:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgQCboOH6AotCh4OcwJgsB4AtXzDo9Gzhl+BAHuEvnDRHNSYIURqGN4CrP+b5Bx/iLrRFOBv58TcZz1jyJ2PaGwT74kvVOe9JCCdgw4nSMBV44cy+6cTJiv6f1tw8pHRS2H6nHC9SCSAWkMX4rpiSQ0wkhjug+GtBWOXDaotIzrFwLw== username@hostname

Now you can checkout your Git repository this way (change where needed. Here it is using the git username and localhost):

git clone git@localhost:my_repository.git

You should now get an SSH yes/no question. Type yes followed by Template:Keypress. Then you should have your repository checked out. Because this is with SSH, you also do have commit rights now. For that look at Git and Super Quick Git Guide.

Specifying a non-standard port

Connecting on a port other than 22 can be configured on a per-host basis in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config. To set up ports for a repository, specify the path in .git/config using the port number N and the absolute path /PATH/TO/REPO:

ssh://user@example.org:N/PATH/TO/REPO

Typically the repository resides in the home directory of the user which allows you to use tilde-expansion. Thus to connect on port N=443,

url = git@example.org:repo.git

becomes:

url = ssh://git@example.org:443/~git/repo.git

Git Daemon

This will allow URLs like "git clone git://localhost/my_repository.git".

Edit configuration file for git-daemon /etc/conf.d/git-daemon.conf (GIT_REPO is a place with your git projects), then start git-daemon with root privileges:

# rc.d start git-daemon

To run the git-daemon every time at boot, just append git-daemon to DAEMONS line in rc.conf.

Clients can now simply use:

git clone git://localhost/my_repository.git

GIT repositories rights

To restrict read/write access, you can simply use Unix rights, see http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/doc/overkill.html

For a fine-grained rights access, see gitolite and gitosis

See also

• Pro Git book
• Git Reference
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
• https://help.github.com/