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A crash course in Git

Clone a repo

Let's take provision:

git clone git://git.aegirproject.org/provision

If successful, you will have a provision directory at the last state of development ('HEAD' in CVS speak, 'master' branch in git speak).

Check the status of the local git repository:

git status

See the commit messages:

git log

Check all 'releases'

git tag

Create a new branch for your local development:

git checkout -b <new_branch_name>

Create a new branch for development, based on an existing remote branch

git checkout -b <new_branch_name> origin/<branch_name>