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DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

COURSE CODE: DJ19ITL602 CLASS: TY BTech
COURSE NAME: Software Engineering Laboratory

EXPERIMENT NO. 9

LO:

1. To understand different Version Control tools like GIT, CVS or Mercurial

AIM: To Perform Version Control on any project using any Version control tool (GIT). To
study various commands to install and organize your files in the repository and their
implementation. Commands for understanding/ implementing Git version, set configuration
variables, make new directory & access it, start a new project with Git, Git status and Git add,
commit, log, clone, Pull and Push.

THEORY:
 Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle
everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
 Git is easy to learn and has a tiny foot print with lightning-fast performance.
 Git is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating
work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for source code
management in software development, but it can be used to keep track of changes in
any set of files.
 It outclasses SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce and ClearCase with features
like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows.
 Some of the basic operations in Git are:
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1.Initialize

2.Add

3.Commit

4.Pull

5.Push

 Some advanced Git operations are:

1.Branching
2.Merging
 The following diagram depict the all supported operations in GIT
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COMMANDS:
1. $git –version

2. $git config
The git config command is a convenience function that is used to set Git
configuration values on a global or local project level.

$git config –global

Global level configuration is user-specific, meaning it is applied to an
operating system user. Global configuration values are stored in a file that is
located in a user's home directory.
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3. $ git config --global --list

4. $git config --global user.name “<user_name>”

$git config –global user.email “<user_email>”

5. mkdir git-demo-project
cd git-demo-project

6. git init
git status
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7. git add new_git.txt

git commit -m “First Commit”

8. git log

9. git clone https://github.com/siddii/angular-timer.git

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10. git push origin master

11. git checkout -b feature

12. git commit -m “New Commit”

13. git push https://github.com/jaishrutimahadevan/git_test.git

14. git checkout master

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15. git merge

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EXERCISE 1:

1. Creating a new folder Jai_Git

2. Adding a new file “hello.txt” in to the folder Jai_Git

3. Contents of hello.txt

4. Initializing git
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5. Checking the status

6. Performing $git add .

7. Performing commit operation

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EXERCISE 2:

1. Creating a new branch “experiment1”

2. Making changes to “exp1.txt” in master branch

3. Committing the changes in master branch

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4. Changing to experiment1 branch

5. Updating “exp1.txt” in experiment1 branch

6. Committing the changes in experiment1 branch

7. Switching to master branch

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8. Encountered conflict on merging experiment1 branch

9. Snapshot of the file

10. Removing unnecessary sentences from “exp1.txt”

11. Committing changes

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12. Successful merging of experiment1 branch

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EXERCISE 3:
1. Remote repository on github

2. Pulling changes from the remote repository

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3. Making changes in the local repository by creating a new file “push.txt”

4. Adding the push.txt file and checking the status

5. Committing the changes

6. Pushing the changes into remote repository

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7. Updated remote repository

CONCLUSION:
In Exercise 1, we added a new file to the folder, checked the status and committed the
changes

In Exercise 2, we made changes to the file in master branch and performed commit operation.
A new branch “experiment1” was created and the same file has been updated and committed.
Merge operation was performed after switching to master branch

In Exercise 3, we performed pulling of a repository from remote repository. A new file was
added to the local repository, changes were committed and then pushed to remote repository.

Overall, we successfully learnt about version control systems, installed Git and performed basic
operations of Git. Git provides a way of keeping track of past versions of software and papers,
making collaboration between various authors easy, and provides backup for your software. It
has proven very useful to the open-source community and in academia as well. Git also has
several other commands that can be useful to perform lesser standard actions such as remove
sensitive data, clean up past history to save space, and so on. We have successfully understood
the purpose of using a version control for collaboration. Application and usage of GIT Push
and Pull commands was successfully executed.
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REFERENCES:

1. https://git-scm.com/
2. https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/git-tutorial/git-tutorial-for-
beginner#:~:text=Git%20is%20a%20DevOps%20tool,parts%20of%20the%
20same% 20program.
3. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/git-lets-get-into-it/