What Git Offers to You

Git is tool that can manage the version of your files for you.

Use git to manage a local folder for you.

In the artical, the local folder is /home/null/ManagedByGit, and the file in this folder is file.info.

Before we you do anything, you should let git know who you are.

git config --global user.name your_name_here

git config --global user.email your_email_here

First of all, we should build a git repository for this folder. To achieve this target,

1. cd into your folder

2. execute the following command

git init

At this time, you will find that there is a folder named .git is created.

and then, the content of this folder looks like this:

Now, we take a snapshot for each file in this folder...

git add .

Commit with a message as a comment...

git commit -m useful-infomation-here

Create a copy as backup for this folder...

git clone ./.git /home/null/backup

If you want to know what's going on the files in this folder...

git log

Check the difference...

git show

If you want to down the soucre code by https, just take the following command as a reference.

git clone https://github.com/aptana/Pydev /home/null/pydev