Saturday 7 November 2015

Source Control and how its used in different operating systems


Source Control is a very common design practice to manage your code. Git is one such version control which is discussed in this blog. Different vendors like GitHub, Bitbucket etc. supports web-based hosting platform for both commerical(private) and open source repositories.This basically stores your code in cloud in a secure way. For starters, I recommend Bitbuket because it offers both private and public repositories free of charge if the size of team is small(up to 5 users).

You can start using Bitbucket after creating an account here:
https://bitbucket.org/

Some common GUI for using these web-based hosting services are the following:

Windows:

Source Tree

Linux:

SmartGit

For linux, please make sure that java is installed in the computer. A good wiki guiding Java installation in Ubuntu can be found here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-JRE-on-Ubuntu-Linux

The following link shows basic steps like staging, commiting and pushing to GIT in linux command line:
http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ 

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