Chapter 2. Setting up to Manage Application Versions
Effective version control is essential to all multi-developer projects. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is distributed with Git, a distributed version control system.
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Select the
Development ToolsAdd-on during system installation to install Git. Alternatively, install the git package from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories after the system is installed.
# yum install git
To get the latest version of Git supported by Red Hat, install the rh-git29 component from Red Hat Software Collections.
# yum install rh-git29
Set the full name and email address associated with your Git commits:
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git config --global user.name "full name"$git config --global user.email "email_address"Replace full name and email_address with your actual name and email address.
To change the default text editor started by Git, set value of the
core.editorconfiguration option:$
git config --global core.editor commandReplace command with the command to be used to start the selected text editor.
Additional Resources
- Chapter 11, Using Git
- Red Hat Software Collections 3.0 Release Notes — 4.5 Git

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