Introduction
Git is a an open source, version control system that is used for software development and other version control tasks. As a distributed revision control system it is aimed at speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.
Official project website: https://git-scm.com/
Installation
Like always, first of all, we recommend updating your server. It can be done simply executing:
apt-get update
Now we can install git using apt-get:
apt-get install git-core -y
At time when this tutorial is written newest version in VPSHosting.lk repositories is 2.7.4. You always can check your git's version with command:
git --version
Configuration
After installation we can start configuring git, first of all you need to setup your user for git. We will use user test with email address test@domain.tld for this tutorial:
git config --global user.name "test"
git config --global user.email "test@domain.tld"
If you forgot or want to change some details, you always can modify git's configuration file:
nano .gitconfig
Conclusion
That's it! You had installed and set up git on your server
