How To Install Git On Google Compute Engine

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In this blog post, we will discuss how to install git on Google compute engine. Git is a fast, scalable, revision control system that serves as a backbone of any modern DevOps architecture. In layman term, git provides a hosting solution for all your code in a distributed and version control environment.

Prerequisites:

One Google Compute Engine instance with internet access.

Git installation on Google Compute Engine:

Step 1: Create a Google Compute Linux based instance with RedHat or CentOS image and connect to the instance.

Step 2: Perform a quick update on your instance (optional):

sudo yum update -y

1	sudo yum update -y

Step 3: Install git in your Google Compute Engine Instance:

sudo yum install git -y

1	sudo yum install git -y

Step 4: Check git version

git version

1	git version

Step 5: Setup Git local repository in Google Compute Engine instance:

#create a directory named employee
mkdir mygitlocalrepo

#get inside mygitlocalrepo directory
cd mygitlocalrepo/

#initialize git local repository
git init

#observe .git file is created in your local git repository which contains data and

#metadata of your local git repository
ls -a
ls -a .git/

#check git status
git status

#getting help from command line
git help

#list all git commands and sub-commands
git help -a

#getting help for a particular git command
git help <command> # for example git help init will provide details of git init command

#configure your username and email id
git config --global user.name "<YOUR_NAME>"
git config --global user.email "<YOUR_EMAIL>"

#create a directory named employee

mkdir mygitlocalrepo

#get inside mygitlocalrepo directory

cd mygitlocalrepo/

#initialize git local repository

git init

#observe .git file is created in your local git repository which contains data and

#metadata of your local git repository

ls -a

ls -a .git/

#check git status

git status

#getting help from command line

git help

#list all git commands and sub-commands

git help -a

#getting help for a particular git command

git help <command> # for example git help init will provide details of git init command

#configure your username and email id

git config --global user.name "<YOUR_NAME>"

git config --global user.email "<YOUR_EMAIL>"

Hope you have enjoyed this article. You are now ready to clone/push git repositories.

To install git in a different platform or OS, please refer below git documentation

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

To get more details on git, please refer below git documentation

https://git-scm.com/doc