Developer Blogging: linux

See the 3:45 min video here

If you are using Fedora 21 Workstation like me jump to step 5 ;)

1 Installation

If you’re on Fedora-based, you can use yum:
$ yum install git
If you’re on a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu, try apt-get:
$ apt-get install git
Configuration
There are two ways:

Modifying files

/etc/.gitconfig        # System level
 ~/.gitconfig          # User level
 Repository/.git/.gitconfig   # Repository level

Using commands

git config --system # System level
 git config –global    # User level
 git config            # Repository level

2 Minimal

git config --global user.name “Xavier Figueroa”
 git config -- global user.email “example@devm.com”
 git config --list
 user.name=Xavier Figueroa
 user.email=example@devm.com
 git config user.name

.gitconfig is hidden, so in order to see the file you need to use ls –a
xavi ~ $ ls -a

To see the content you can use

xavi ~ $ cat .gitconfig
 xavi ~ $ tail .gitconfig
 xavi ~ $ vim .gitconfig

3 Set Default Text Editor

git config --global core.editor "vim -w"
or set the GIT_EDITOR, VISUAL, or EDITOR environment variables.

4 Auto-Completion

curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
 curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

Rename file

mv ~/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash
 mv ~/ git-prompt.sh ~/ .git-prompt.sh

Edit ~/.bashrc

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
 source ~/.git-completion.bash
 fi
 if [ -f ~/.git-prompt.sh ]; then
 source ~/.git-prompt.sh
 fi

5 Improve the bash

Add the following ~/.bashrc


 if [ -f /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh ]; then
 source /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
 fi
 green="\[\033[0;32m\]"
 cyan="\[\033[1;36m\]"
 purple="\[\033[1;35m\]"
 reset="\[\033[0m\]"
 export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true
 export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true
 export PS1="$purple\u$green\$(declare -F __git_ps1 &>/dev/null && __git_ps1 ' (%s)')$cyan \W $ $reset"

6 Getting help

git help to see the list of commands
git help <specific command> to see how to use the command
Pressing space or f will move you forwards or b pressing b will move you backwards as well
Pressing q stands for Quit will take you back to the command line

References
blog.devm.org
http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
https://help.github.com/articles/associating-text-editors-with-git/
http://www.sublimetext.com/3

I created a gallery to show you how to start working with Fedora using Virtual Box
In my VM I have:
2GB RAM
2 Processors
64MB In video Memory with 3D Acceleration Enabled
Virtual Disk with 20GB dynamically allocated.

See the gallery here

Everything is working just fine, this is the first time that I can install and start working without major problems. I'm very glad with this new version of Fedora so far

References:
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Installation_Guide/
http://www.binarytides.com/vbox-guest-additions-fedora-20/
http://worldofgnome.org/installing-the-latest-virtualbox-guest-in-fedora/
http://blog.devm.org/?p=28

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