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The following steps describe how to setup git. This setup has to done only once for the machine where you are planing to develop code.

• Setting the user name in git:

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  git config --global user.name "my name"

• Setting the email address in git:

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  git config --global user.email "my email"

   

   

Confirm that your user name is correct by:

git config --global user.name

Confirm that your email is correct by:

git config --global user.email

GitHub account
If you do not already have a GitHub account, sign up for a new account on GitHub.

Setup ssh keys for your GitHub account
https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/
   

Useful Commands

• Check status of the repo
  git status
  
  
• Show current and available branches in the repository
  git branch -a
  
  
• Show local changes in the code since the last commit
  git diff

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