Our new Linux server can also be very useful for making local, regular and systematic copies of our projects in a versioning system such as subversion (svn) or git.
Let’s start with Git. Installing it will help us, for example, to make a scheduled checkout of what we have on GitHub or another Git server.
To install Git, we proceed as usual via apt:
$ sudo apt-get install git
We check that everything is correctly installed with:
$ git
without parameters. We need to do the initial setup of Git to tell it who we are:
sudo git config --global user.name "mcaliman"
sudo git config --global user.email "mcaliman@gmail.com"
Check the configuration with:
git config --list