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Linux for Developers: Jumpstart Your Linux Programming Skills
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Linux for Developers: Jumpstart Your Linux Programming Skills

by William “Bo” Rothwell
April 2017
Beginner
224 pages
5h 10m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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13. Manage Files with Git

Git provides a rich collection of features, but the core set of features are the ones that you are going to use the most often. This includes commands that enable you to stage files and commit files to the local repository, as well as create branches. This chapter focuses on these topics as well as a few related ones.

Basic Configuration

You might want to perform several configuration operations. For example, you can set your default editor by executing the following command:

ocs@ubuntu:~/ocs$ git config --global core.editor vi

You can view current configuration settings by executing the git config --list command:

ocs@ubuntu:~/ocs$ git config --list user.name=Bo Rothwell user.email=bo@onecoursesource.com core.editor=editor_name ...

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