In this short guide, I'll show you how to install and configure git on Ubuntu / Linux Mint. The article outline the basic steps to have working git on your Ubuntu machine.
Installing Git with apt install
The easiest way to start using git on Ubuntu like systems is to install it from default packages. This can be done with few lines of code like:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
after the installation is complete you can ensure that it was successful by:
git --version
output will be like:
git version 2.17.1
As you can see this is installing version 2.17 - if you want to install the latest stable upstream version available you can check this page:
add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
apt update; apt install git
On this page you can find Git GUI clients: Git GUI tools
Configure Git on Ubuntu
The basic configuration for git is done by:
git config --list
example output:
user.name=my_git_user
[email protected]
core.autocrlf=input
...
The information above is stored in your home directory and can be accessed by:
nano ~/.gitconfig
Multi-user setup for Git on Ubuntu
In case of more than one user on a given machine you can setup configuration on project level. For example you can find .git folder under the target project and then to edit Git information by editing this file:
~/PycharmProjects/myproject/.git/config
You can edit it by:
nano ~/PycharmProjects/myproject/.git/config
You can add the new user like follow:
[user]
name = new_user
email = [email protected]
Sometimes you may need to add the user name to the git url:
finally the config file should like this:
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[submodule]
active = .
[remote "origin"]
url = https://[email protected]/xxxx/xxxx.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[user]
name = new_user
email = [email protected]
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