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Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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Basic Git commands

There are many commands that you can use with Git, but some of the most commonly used ones include the following:

  • git config: This is the command used to configure your local Git environment. The configuration can be global; the values will then be kept in your home directory in the .gitconfig file. The values can only be set per repository, and then they will be kept within the repository.
  • git init: This initializes a new Git repository. When you run this command in a directory, it creates a new .git directory in the root of the project, which is used to track changes made to the project’s files.
  • git clone: This creates a local copy of a remote Git repository. When you run this command, it creates a new directory with the same name as the repository and clones all of the files and their history into that directory.
  • git add: This stages files for commit. When you make changes to a file in a Git repository, those changes are not automatically...
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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