Git, distributed version control

Git howto

The most used websites for git howto’s are:

• https://githowto.com/
• https://git-scm.com/

set up a git server

the machine has to have ssh acces for git over ssh the machine can have http server for git over http

in debian apt install git

check Git on the server

define origint

upstreams

get and fork other projects using git upstream https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50973048/forking-git-repository-from-github-to-gitlab#52954199

say we want to fork/import another project int ours

git remote add upstream-gitlab-REPO https://gitlab.com/user/repository.git
git remote add upstream-github-REPO https://github.com/user/repository.git

then

git fetch -all

and we can pull from any upstream

git pull upstream-gitlab-REPO <BRANCH>
git pull upstream-github-REPO <BRANCH>