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How should a novice explore into the world of git ? (cafe.coffee-break.cc)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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Imagine a young explorer who's just heard that word, "git". But it actually means an entire world. How is this young explorer supposed to dive into this mysterious world with just a machine in hand ?

He's got vs code though !! And he's also got fish and zsh on WSL !

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You can always version control regular-ass documents, art files, whatever, too! You might not be able to diff them very well, but you can absolutely use git as a bunch of save states.

git is entirely local-only. You don't need to upload anything to github at all.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    Probably that's the property of git that l stumbled upon ?

    But how do l save art files locally in the form of git ?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Same as you would anything else!

    git init (if you're making a new repository)
    git add somefile.kra
    git commit (and then write your commit message)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    But l need to download git into my system locally for my machine to understand the command, correct ?

    In that case, how do I install git ?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yep! If you're on Linux, sudo apt install git should sort you out if you're on a Debian-ish distro (including Mint or Ubuntu). Fedora it's sudo dnf install git, Arch... uhh... I don't know a ton about Arch's pacman.

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