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    This document discusses setting up the Git environment on Linux systems. It describes installing Git using apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu and yum on CentOS/RHEL. It also covers configuring user information, colors, editors and other settings using git config. These configurations can be set globally or locally and allow customizing the Git environment and user experience.

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    This document discusses setting up the Git environment on Linux systems. It describes installing Git using apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu and yum on CentOS/RHEL. It also covers configuring user information, colors, editors and other settings using git config. These configurations can be set globally or locally and allow customizing the Git environment and user experience.

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    Git - Environment Setup - Tutorialspoint https://www.tutorialspoint.com/git/git_environment.

    htm

    Git - Environment Setup

    Before you can use Git, you have to install and do some basic configuration changes. Below
    are the steps to install Git client on Ubuntu and Centos Linux.

    Installation of Git Client


    If you are using Debian base GNU/Linux distribution, then apt-get command will do the
    needful.

    [ubuntu ~]$ sudo apt-get install git-core


    [sudo] password for ubuntu:

    [ubuntu ~]$ git --version


    git version 1.8.1.2

    And if you are using RPM based GNU/Linux distribution, then use yum command as given.

    [CentOS ~]$
    su -
    Password:

    [CentOS ~]# yum -y install git-core

    [CentOS ~]# git --version


    git version 1.7.1

    Customize Git Environment


    Git provides the git config tool, which allows you to set configuration variables. Git stores all
    global configurations in .gitconfig file, which is located in your home directory. To set these
    configuration values as global, add the --global option, and if you omit --global option, then
    your configurations are specific for the current Git repository.

    You can also set up system wide configuration. Git stores these values in the /etc/gitconfig
    file, which contains the configuration for every user and repository on the system. To set
    these values, you must have the root rights and use the --system option.

    When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

    Setting username

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    This information is used by Git for each commit.

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global user.name "Jerry Mouse"

    Setting email id
    This information is used by Git for each commit.

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]

    Avoid merge commits for pulling


    You pull the latest changes from a remote repository, and if these changes are divergent,
    then by default Git creates merge commits. We can avoid this via following settings.

    jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always

    Color highlighting
    The following commands enable color highlighting for Git in the console.

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global color.ui true

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global color.status auto

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global color.branch auto

    Setting default editor


    By default, Git uses the system default editor, which is taken from the VISUAL or EDITOR
    environment variable. We can configure a different one by using git config.

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global core.editor vim

    Setting default merge tool


    Git does not provide a default merge tool for integrating conflicting changes into your working
    tree. We can set default merge tool by enabling following settings.

    [jerry@CentOS project]$ git config --global merge.tool vimdiff

    Listing Git settings


    To verify your Git settings of the local repository, use git config –list command as given

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    below.

    [jerry@CentOS ~]$ git config --list

    The above command will produce the following result.

    user.name=Jerry Mouse
    [email protected]
    push.default=nothing
    branch.autosetuprebase=always
    color.ui=true
    color.status=auto
    color.branch=auto
    core.editor=vim
    merge.tool=vimdiff

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