Git is the industry standard for software collaboration and version-control. Version Control refers to how we manage and track changes from different contributors and merge them into a single version of our codebase.
Git should come installed by default.
You can check by typing the following into a terminal.
git --version
If it is not installed, you can install it with
sudo apt-get install git
If you haven’t used Github on your computer before (or WSL distribution), follow this short tutorial to set it up.
If you’ve already followed the Software Onboarding, you should have already downloaded our VEXU GHOST Software Repository, so you don’t need to do it again.
For any git repository, you can generally acquire the code by:
Going to the Github page
Getting a link from the Green “Code” button
git clone <LINK-FROM-GITHUB>
This is sufficient if this is a repository from your organization. If it is someone else’s repo and you plan to make changes, you should look into making a fork.