Version Control Systems

• A version Control System enables us to store code (Repository)
  • Which enables multi user
  • Which enables multiple versions

• Git is most popular version control system create by Linus Torvalds

• Git is a distributed version control system

Initial configuration of git

• hint: Use any git cheatsheet
• Git commit requires username and email address

git config --global user.name "<ur-username>"
git config --global user.email "<ur-email-id>"

Repository

• Assumption: You will be creating a repository in github first or your org already has a repository
• Clone: To get a local copy of a repository

git clone <url>

• Git supports two types of protocols
  • https: requires username/token to clone
  • ssh: requires ssh key to be configured
• To create an ssh key, open Terminal

ssh-keygen

• This command generates public as well as private key