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Ubuntu Server Cookbook

You're reading from   Ubuntu Server Cookbook Arm yourself to make the most of the versatile, powerful Ubuntu Server with over 100 hands-on recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883064
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Uday Sawant Uday Sawant
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Managing Users and Groups FREE CHAPTER 2. Networking 3. Working with Web Servers 4. Working with Mail Servers 5. Handling Databases 6. Network Storage 7. Cloud Computing 8. Working with Containers 9. Streaming with Ampache 10. Communication Server with XMPP 11. Git Hosting 12. Collaboration Tools 13. Performance Monitoring 14. Centralized Authentication Service Index

Storing file revisions with Git commit

We have initialized a new repository for our project. Now we will learn how to store file modifications using git add and git commit.

Getting ready

Make sure you have initialized a new git repository and created sample files under your project directory. Follow the previous recipes to get more details.

How to do it…

Now that we have a new repo initialized for our project, let's go ahead and check in our files.

  1. Before we add any files, simply check the current status of the repo with the git status command. This should list all the files under the Untracked files list, as follows:
    $ git status
    
    How to do it…

    As shown by git status, none of our files are being tracked by Git. We need to add those files before Git tracks any changes to them.

  2. Let's add all the files to the tracking list with git add:
    $ git add .
    

    This command does not create any output, but stages all untracked files to be added to the repo. The symbol (.) specifies the current directory and...

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