How to Install Git on Linux Machine

Steps to Install Git on Linux Machine

Mainly following steps are involved in Git installation. We will walk through each step in detail. 

Click Here: Introduction to Git

• Provision Linux Machine on AWS Cloud
• Access Linux Machine
• Update yum repository
• Install git rpm
• Initialize Git Repository
• User and Email Configuration in git local repo

1. Provision Linux Machine on AWS Cloud

    Click Here for detailed steps: AWS Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)

2. Access Linux Machine

    Click Here for detailed steps:  Steps to Login to AWS EC2 Machine

3. Update yum repository

    Login to Linux server

    Switch to root user- sudo su - root

    Run command - yum update -y

4. Install git rpm

    Confirm if git is installed and git version

    

5. Initialize Git Repository 

    create a directory where git can be installed

    

    initialize git command

        

        cd piyush

        git init

    

6. User and Email Configuration in Git Local Repo 

    Configure git user and email id:

        git config --global user.name "piyush"

        git config --global user.email "piyushprakashpp@gmail.com"

    Git Config List: List out all users and email ids

        git config --list