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Git is a version control system, like Mercurial with slightly more confusing commands, or like Subversion on steroids. It's a distributed VCS (DVCS), which you can google to find out more about, but if you've only ever used subversion and CVS, you'll find it a little different (hopefully more pleasant) to work with then you're used to. | |||
At some stage, someone might put up a full tutorial showing how to use git, but for now, here's how to get and use a repository on redbrick's git hosting area. | |||
== Getting a git repository on Redbrick == | |||
Before you can use redbrick's git repositories from one of your computers (or from your redbrick shell), you need to create a public/private SSH keypair there if you haven't already. You'll need to do this for every device/place that you want to access git from. This might sound annoying, but it also lets you use git without having to type a password every time you need to clone/push/pull. | |||
To do this on a Unixey (Linux/Mac OS X/on redbrick) system, run: | |||
ssh-keygen -t rsa | |||