Version Control System Lisa Palathingal 03/04/2015

What is Version Control?  Records changes to file(s) over time.  Centralized Version Control:  have a single server that keeps all the changes to files.  Examples: CVS, Subversion.  Disadvantage: Single point of failure.  Distributed Version Control:  Clients can clone the entire repository.  Examples: Git, Mercurial.

Centralized VCS

What is Version Control?  Records changes to file(s) over time.  Centralized Version Control:  have a single server that keeps all the changes to files.  Examples: CVS, Subversion.  Disadvantage: Single point of failure.  Distributed Version Control:  Clients can clone the entire repository.  Examples: Git, Mercurial.

Distributed VCS

Git  Free, open source, distributed VCS.  developed by Junio Hamano and Linus Torvalds.  Runs on OS X, Windows, Linux, UNIX.

Advantages of Git  Free and open source  Staging area  Branching and Merging are easy  Distributed -local -work offline -no single point of failure -fast

States of Git

Individual Workflow

Collaborative Workflow

Git  Command line tool  Basic Commands: - git init-git push - git status- git pull - git add- git branch - git commit-git checkout

git init

git status

git add

git commit

git push

Git  Command line tool  Basic Commands: - git init-git push - git status- git pull - git add- git branch -git commit-git checkout

Git Tutorial Websites

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