Install github version control systems on ubuntu

Github is a distributed version control system.

Running sudo apt-get update simply makes sure your list of packages from all repositories and PPA’s is up to date.

sudo apt-get update

Install Git with Apt

One of the most popular version control systems is git, a distributed version control system.

sudo apt-get install git

Git GUI is a cross-platform and portable Tcl/Tk based GUI front-end for Git that works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

sudo apt-get install git-gui

Gitg is a GNOME GUI front-end to view Git repositories.

sudo apt-get install git-g

Bonus points

• Add git branch name to bash prompt

  $ gedit ~/.bashrc

#Git branch in prompt.
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $"`

• Set user name and email configurations for GIT

git config --list
git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
git config --global user.email "example@gmail.com"

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