Working With Git

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Working With Git

In December 2008 Avogadro moved its version control system over to Git, hosted at GitHub. Git is quite different to traditional, centralized version control systems. It is a DVCS (Distrubuted Version Control System). It was coded by Linus Torvalds and others primarily to handle the Linux kernel's very distributed development model.

There are lots of guides around that help you to work with Git. A good quick start guide is everyday Git. In a normal workflow we recommend that you sign up for a GitHub account, go to the Avogadro GitHub page and fork Avogadro. You will then get your own copy of the Git repository. You can keep this up to date using the web interface or Git, and can make pull requests when your changes are ready for integration.

Configuring Git

The first thing you will want to do is tell Git who you are. This will be used in commit messages and attributions. 

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
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