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How to Install Git and Setup Git Account in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora
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For newbies, Git is a free and open source, fast and distributed version control system (VCS), which by design is based on speed, efficient performance and data integrity to support small-scale to extensive software development projects.
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Git is a software repository that allows you to keep a track of your software changes, revert to previous version and create another versions of files and directories.
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Git is written in C, with a mix of Perl and a variety of shell scripts, it’s primarily intended to run on the Linux kernel and has a number of remarkable features as listed below:
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1. Easy to learn
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2. It is fast and most of its operations are carried out locally, in addition, this offers it a tremendous speed on centralized systems that need to communicate with remote servers.
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3. Highly efficient
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4. Supports data integrity checks
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5. Enables cheap local branching
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6. Offers a convenient staging area
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7. It also maintains multiple work-flows together with many others
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In this how-to guide, we shall move through the necessary steps of installing Git on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 20-24 Linux distributions along with how to configure Git so that you can start participating right away..
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### Install Git Using Yum
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We shall install Git from the system default repositories, and make sure that your system is up-to-date with the latest version of packages by running the [YUM package manager][8] update command below:
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```
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# yum update
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```
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Next, install Git by typing the following command:
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```
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# yum install git
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```
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After git successfully installed, you can issue the following command to display the version of Git installed:
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```
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# git --version
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```
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[][7]
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Check Git Installed Version
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Important: Installing Git from default repositories will give you older version. If you looking to have a most recent version of Git, consider compiling from source using following instructions.
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### Install Git from Source
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Before you begin, first you need to install required software dependencies from the default repositories, along with the utilities that needed to build a binary from source:
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# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
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# yum install gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel
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```
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After you have installed required software dependencies, go to the official [Git release page][6] and grab the latest version and compile it from source using following series of command:
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# wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.10.1.tar.gz -O git.tar.gz
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# tar -zxf git.tar.gz
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# cd git-2.10.1/
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# make configure
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# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
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# make install
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# git --version
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```
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[][5]
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Check Installed Git Version
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**Suggested Read:** [11 Best Git Clients and Git Repository Viewers for Linux][4]
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### Set Up Git Account in Linux
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In this section, we shall cover how to set up a Git account with correct user information such as name and email address to avoid any commit errors, and the `git config` command is used to do that.
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Important: Make sure to replace username with the actual name for the Git user to be created and used on your system.
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You can start by creating a Git user with the [useradd command][3] as below, where the `-m` flag used to create the user’s home directory under `/home` and `-s` specifies the user’s default shell.
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# useradd -m -s /bin/bash username
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# passwd username
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```
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Now, add the new user to the wheel group to enable the account to use the `sudo` command:
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# usermod username -aG wheel
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```
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[][2]
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Create Git User Account
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Then configure Git with the new user as follows:
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```
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# su username
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$ sudo git config --global user.name "Your Name"
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$ sudo git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
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```
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Now verify Git configuration using following command.
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```
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$ sudo git config --list
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```
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If there are no errors with the configurations, you should be able to view an output with the following details:
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user.name=username
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user.email= username@some-domian.com
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```
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[][1]
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>Setup Git Account in Linux
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##### Conclusion
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In this simple tutorial, we have looked at how to install Git on your Linux system as well as configuring it. I believe the instructions are easy to follow, however, to get in touch with us for any questions or suggestions you can make use of the reaction section below.
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作者：[Aaron Kili ][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:http://www.tecmint.com/author/aaronkili/
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[1]:http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Setup-Git-Account.png
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[2]:http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Create-Git-User-Account.png
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[3]:http://www.tecmint.com/add-users-in-linux/
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[4]:http://www.tecmint.com/best-gui-git-clients-git-repository-viewers-for-linux/
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[5]:http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Check-Git-Source-Version.png
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[6]:https://github.com/git/git/releases
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[7]:http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Check-Git-Version.png
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[8]:http://www.tecmint.com/20-linux-yum-yellowdog-updater-modified-commands-for-package-mangement/
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