Git

Git is a version control system designed to be used in a distributed ecosystem and primarily interfaced in a terminal (i.e. git(1)).

Contents

  1. Git
    1. Installation
    2. Usage
      1. Branches
    3. Related Utilities and Services
      1. Text Interfaces
      2. Web Interfaces
      3. Services
    4. Tips
      1. Fatal error when cloning a remote repository

Installation

All Linux distributions offer a git package. Most BSD distributions do as well.

On Windows, see the Git for Windows project.

Usage

To begin tracking a directory, run git init. This creates a .git folder to maintain the internal state of the version control system.

Use git status to show the current state in a human-readable format.

Branches

For more information about using branches, see here.

Text Interfaces

Web Interfaces

See:

Services

Tips

Fatal error when cloning a remote repository

If git fails to clone a remote repository, possibly with one of the following error messages: 

fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
...
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

Then try a shallow clone first: 

git clone --depth 1 https://example.com/repo.git
git fetch --unshallow
git pull --all

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