Setting Up Git

How to Configure git

This guide assumes that you wish to start using git with the projects present in this repository (repo). More complete guides on using git can be found using the bitbucket tutorials or using the git reference guide.

First, ensure you are in the directory that you want the project repo to be pulled into. Then use the following command to create a copy on your machine

git clone URL

where URL is the address of the repo.

Once you have cloned the repo change directory into it. Assuming you have not already configured your user profile for git globally you will need to add a name and email to the config. This can be done using

git config --local user.email "Email"
git config --local user.name "Name"

Cloning the repo from the origin will pull down the branch attached to the head, usually the master branch. You can check which branches you a copy of on your local terminal using

git branch

If you want to check what branches there are available at the origin use

git branch --remote

To change to a different branch

git checkout NewBranch

if the new branches name matches one available at the origin then git will automatically sync the local one to it.

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