You're reading from Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207561

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows Terminal

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Will Fuqua

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal

2. Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI

4. Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile

5. Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells

6. Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings

7. Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance

8. Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts

9. Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions

10. Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro

11. Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert

12. Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

13. Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal

14. Chapter 11: Building web applications with React

15. Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal

16. Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems

17. Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix Windows Terminal Actions

Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal

Throughout this book, we've been using a great deal of open source software, such as Windows Terminal, PowerShell, and ZSH. These three projects all have something in common: they use Git as their version control system (VCS) to manage their source code.

Git is the most popular version control system, as it's fast, flexible, and distributed. Its distributed nature is in contrast to older client/server systems such as Subversion (SVN), where the server has all the smarts, and the clients are dependent on it. With Git, each copy of the source code is a fully working repository with a complete history of the code, and can itself act as a server if required. Whether or not there's a central copy in Git is more of a social or project management construct, rather than a technical one.

Somewhat ironically, one of the most popular ways to use Git is in a centralized manner, with GitHub and GitLab being the common hosts...