Control your versions and program in group with Git and Gitorious

These tests and the results were carried out in the Canaima distribution meta

Git is a version control software designed by Linus Torvalds, with the efficiency and reliability of application versioning in mind when they have a large number of source code files.

Gitorious is the name of a system to offer hosting to cooperative development projects of free software based on a Web environment using the Git distributed version control system, as well as the software of this open source server that is developed and hosted in it .

What can we do with these two elements?
These two elements go hand in hand, with git we package our source code. With Gitorious we share it in a simple and elegant way, so that more developers can contribute to the project, at the same time we manage the versions that have been made previously.

How to use Git & Gitorius?

Let's start with Gitorius

• Go to the address gitorious.org

• Register and confirm account by mail

• Create SSH Key. The SSH Key is our access key to upload the files to gitorius.

• To create the access key we go to the terminal and install the package "sudo apt-get install ssh"

• We execute in the terminal "ssh-keygen"

• We follow the steps and enter the key.

• If everything goes well, we have our password, it will be created

• We access the /home/usuario/.ssh directory

• We copy what is inside the id_rsa.pub file

• Then we access our gitorious session and enter what we copied to the "Manage SSH Keys"

• Now, we can create the project on the gitorius page. "Create a New Project", we fill out the form.

• We create the repository, we add a name and a description to it.

Now we go with GIT

Now we request a copy of the project.

git clone git@gitorious.org:nombredelrepositorio/nombredelrepositorio.git

cd nombredelrepositorio

Create a branch called "master" in your repository from Gitorious, running:

git remote add master git@gitorious.org:nombredelrepositorio/nombredelrepositorio.git

Copy all the source code of your project inside your current directory:

cp -rv /path/to/your/code/nombredelrepositorio/* . O crea los archivos fuente de tu proyecto

Add the new files to this branch (master):

git add .

Commit this change, I mean commit all the files you copied a minute ago:

git commit -a

Update your project in the Gitorious repository:

git push --all

Notes:

There are more options with git, this is the basics, to be able to create the project, upload and update the files, obviously git is more complex.

I know there are front-ends for git but I prefer it that way, and that's what the article is about.

Also applies for bitbucket