Installing Git in Ubuntu

Background

Sometime back I had written a post about git (it's installation and usage in windows). This post simple covers it's Linux counterpart. How to install git in Ubuntu.

•  Install and use Git on Windows

 Installing git on Ubuntu

To install git execute following command -

• git apt-get install git-core

 Post installation you can run following command to verify installation -

•  git --version

 And you are all good to go!

To set up git config you can use following command -

•  git config --global user.name "aniket91"
•  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

To view the config  you can do

•  git config --list

or view the config file

•  cat ~/.gitconfig

Try cloning a repository

• git clone https://github.com/aniket91/DataStructures.git

My Git Repositories

• TicTacToe
• Data Structure

Avoid Merge Commits

Whenever you have unpushed commits on your local and you try to do a git pull after those commits it will create a merge commit .
To avoid it follow one of the below mentioned methods,

1. run git pull --rebase 
2. To avoid running it with the rebase flag and to make the above the default behavior when pulling changes, git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always 
3. In SourceTree under tools->options/preferences under the Git tab select "Use rebase instead of merge by default for tracked branches"

Related Links

•  Install and use Git on Windows(OSFG)
•  Installing Git on CentOS from sources(OSFG)
• Checking for existing SSH keys
• Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent
• Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account
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