i just realized how resourceful you guys are!!! :)

Thank you! Please let me know if there are any other topics you would like to see covered. =]

awesome tutorial. I’m waiting it basic… :)

Hi! this only works if you are running certain versions and set ups. The command

root@nova-controller:~# apt-get install git -y Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package git is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package ‘git’ has no installation candidate

That would depend on what repos you are contacting to install packages but it should be supported, have you made any repo changes for apt?

git config --list does not work,it shows an error fatal: bad config file line 2 in /root/.gitconfig what to do now…?

In a user’s home directory the .gitconfig file is the user’s specific config variables.

You should review that file and see if you have any errors in it as whenever you run git as root that file will be referenced.

Also depending on how your application is setup you may want to consider running all of your git repos under another user who is not root for security. In that case the /root/.gitconfig would not be referenced.

How about a post commit hook, so when after I push a commit code to git repo, it will auto upload php files to the lamp/web server which is also hosted by digital ocean. Hope you will have a tutorial for this. I am a newbie.

You can set something up like that, but it kind of breaks the convention behind git, which is meant to commit changes to the repo and then delpoy the code separately.

You can use something like capistrano to automate the deployment of your git code after you have updated. This way you can do multiple commits and work with other collaborators without having to worry that each most recent commit automatically gets deployed as this can be error prone, by deploying code that hasn’t yet been thoroughly tested.

Super and Easy steps given here!!!

thanks.

Can this work when you are using putty? I keep getting an error saying bad config file line 1

After the following instructions above,

 "Opening it following a fresh Git install would reveal a completely blank page:
 sudo nano ~/.gitconfig"

I misunderstood and tried editing in the next commands directly into the that file, that is, when that file was open, I type in this:

 git config --global user.name "NewUser"
 git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

This was not the right thing to do. Then, when I later tried trying the same things at the command prompt, it gave me an error, because I already had bad syntax in the file. I had to delete the bad config file lines before the commands would work at the command prompt:

git config --global user.name "NewUser"
git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

I believe this may answer one of the queries/problems asked above too.

Also, should the quotes around “NewUser” in the same example be there or not, or do they matter? They are not shown around the email example of “newuser@example.com”

Thanks!

Thank you for the great tutorial! I’m using ubuntu 11.04 and it worked just fine.

Part 2 and Part 3 of this excellent series. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-git-effectively https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-git-branches

Usefull Tut :)

Can you please guide on how to install gerrit

thanks before read

THANK YOU…

@anil.virtuali: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-gerrit-on-an-ubuntu-cloud-server

Thank you!

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Thank you, nice tutorial :D

I was having problems with these instructions on Ubuntu 12.04.

This seems to have worked better for me: sudo apt-get -y install git-core

Hope this helps if anyone is having issues.

For me, this post seemed to be a bit outdated. I’m running Ubuntu 12.04LTS. To update the .gitconfig file, I had to write the file in the format shown at this link: https://gist.github.com/bvsatyaram/1500350

@yeosamuelh: Yes, you should wrap the username w/quotes; and the e-mail address should <b><u>not</u></b> be wrapped w/quotes.

I think that somebody understands from this tutorial git config --global user.name “NewUser” git config --global user.email newuser@example.com adds to file “sudo nano ~/.gitconfig” You should enter git command into prompt window

This doesn’t work. I just created a new droplet running Ubuntu 12.04 and the command: apt-get install git-core fails because it can’t fetch some archives:

[beta:~] root$ apt-get install git-core Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: fakeroot libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libc-dev-bin libdpkg-perl libfile-fcntllock-perl libitm1 libquadmath0 manpages-dev Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: git git-man libcurl3-gnutls Suggested packages: git-daemon-run git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email git-gui gitk gitweb The following NEW packages will be installed: git git-core git-man libcurl3-gnutls 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 241 kB/7,042 kB of archives. After this operation, 15.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main libcurl3-gnutls amd64 7.27.0-1ubuntu1.2 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80] Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security/main libcurl3-gnutls amd64 7.27.0-1ubuntu1.2 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.14 80] Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.27.0-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.14 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I tried the --fix-missing with no luck.

Any ideas?

@la: As the error says:

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Run <pre>sudo apt-get update</pre> first.

@KamalNasser Thank you! I completely missed that it. I tried --fix-missing with no luck. But apt-get update did the trick. Best.

bad config file line 1 in /root/.gitconfig. how can I fix that? Any help?

it`s all blank in cofig page. what should I do?

@felix.johnson: What’s the output of <pre>cat /root/.gitconfig</pre>?

Under Ubuntu 12.04, git version is: 1.7.9.5 is very enough to use.

thanks guys! your explanations are awesome!

For those that are getting errors, make sure you type it like this: git config --global user.email “newuser@example.com” see the quotes. See this guide if you’re using GitHub: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-linux

Your excellent tutorial appears second in Google for “ubuntu git” :)

Very helpful tutorial… Thank you so much guys…

Thank you, nice tutorial :D

I had a lot of trouble getting this going, until I realized that your fonts suck. Distinguishing between l and 1 are very difficult unless you closely inspect it. For anyone having trouble pay close attention to the l’s and 1’s when installing the dependancies.

@tips: What lines are you talking about?

Thank you so much.

I used the first method at the top, it seemed the most idiot(me) proof and all the commands worked (I think) they threw no errors anyway but afterwards in putty all three it has “user name” and it has “email” both those lines fully typed out then under both of them but when I type “git config --list” nothing happens I just get another new line to enter stuff on no errors being thrown, what am I dong wrong, please say someone watches these comments everything has gone perfect till here, love your guys’ beginner tutorials, I couldn’t even start my first droplet without the tuts lol…

used to get this msg:

The program ‘git’ is currently not installed. To run ‘git’ please ask your administrator to install the package ‘git’

here is how you fix it

[code] sudo dpkg --configure -a [/code]

if you still having proble installing git

Hi how can i connect with sourcetree to my git bare repo?

I solved it myself

for yeosamuelh

to fix the syntax error , you have to put this [user] before name and email properties, like this : [user] name = nafia email = amaziane.n@gmail.com

it is very use full…thank you…

Another way to get the latest version of git in Ubuntu is using the Ubuntu Git Maintainers PPA:

If you don’t have the add-apt-repository utility

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Register the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

update package index

sudo apt-get update

If you don’t have git installed yet

sudo install git

Else

sudo apt-get upgrade