How To Install Git on CentOS 7

How To Install Git on CentOS 7
How To Install Git on CentOS 7

Installing Git on CentOS 7We’ll show you, How To Install Git on CentOS 7. Git is a distributed version control system, which you can use to track the code changes (versions) while developing software. Git offers features such as reverting to a previous stage, multiple workflows, local branching, and many others. This makes Git one of the best version control systems and that is why it is used by many software developers. Installing Git on CentOS 7 is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps below, and you should have it installed in less than 10 minutes.

1. Connect via SSH

To install Git on your CentOS 7 VPS you need to have SSH access to the server. If you don’t know how to do this, you can follow our guide on how to connect to a Linux server via SSH.

2. Install Git on CentOS 7

Once you log in you can use the following command to install Git:

yum install git

3. Verify Git installation on CentOS 7

To verify that Git is successfully installed you can use the following command:

git --version

The command above will also show the version of Git installed on your CentOS 7 VPS.

# git --version
git version 1.8.3.1

4. The configuration of Git on CentOS 7

The first thing that you might want to do after the installation is to configure your name and email address in Git so the changes you commit contain the correct information. You can do that by using the following commands:

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git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "user@domain.com"

5. List configuration settings

To verify that you entered the correct information you can use the command below:

git config --list

The output should be similar to the following one:

# git config --list
user.name=Your Name
user.email=user@domain.com

6. Git command line option and help

For more information and command line options you can use the --help flag.

git --help

It will list the most commonly used Git commands.

   add        Add file contents to the index
   bisect     Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug
   branch     List, create, or delete branches
   checkout   Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
   clone      Clone a repository into a new directory
   commit     Record changes to the repository
   diff       Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
   fetch      Download objects and refs from another repository
   grep       Print lines matching a pattern
   init       Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
   log        Show commit logs
   merge      Join two or more development histories together
   mv         Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink
   pull       Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch
   push       Update remote refs along with associated objects
   rebase     Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
   reset      Reset current HEAD to the specified state
   rm         Remove files from the working tree and from the index
   show       Show various types of objects
   status     Show the working tree status
   tag        Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG

You can also refer to the Git documentation.


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