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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

You're reading from   Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line Command line power like you've never seen

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129184
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bogdan Vaida Bogdan Vaida
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Go with the Git flow

Git is by far the most popular version control system out there. In this chapter, we will be looking at a plugin for Git, called GitFlow, which proposes a branching model for software projects. This branching model doesn't offer much help when it comes to small projects, but it's a great benefit to medium sized and large projects. We will be looking at a variation of the git-flow plugin, called gitflow-avh, which adds extra functionality, such as Git hooks, https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh.

To install it, we'll follow the instructions on the GitHub page. We are on Ubuntu, so we will follow the installation instructions for Linux.

We can see that it can be directly installed with the apt command, but apt doesn't usually contain the latest version of the software, so today we will do a manual installation. We want to pick the stable version, and use the one line command.

Once this is done, let's create a dummy project. We'll create...

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