We highly recommend first getting familiar with git from its command line interface before jumping into a GUI tool. That means anything you can do using a GUI, you can also do using the git command line application. All of the commands that the GUI issues are relayed to the underlying git command line application. The important thing to know is that a git GUI application is simply a layer between the user and git. There are also graphical user interface, or GUI, applications available for viewing and maintaining your repositories, which we will occasionally use to see a visual representation of the changes we have made.

Interacting With gitįor the most part, we will be using the command line to interact with git repositories. You should see something like git version 1.8.3.2.

From the command line, run: $ git -version If you're using Cloud9, git should already be installed.īefore we continue, let's verify git is working. If you haven't installed git yet, visit the download page and run the installer for your operating system. Now that we understand what git is, and why we want to use it, we need to install it first.

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