Question is why we are selecting openSUSE over here? Answer is simple. It just simply stored a link to the previous identical file it has already stored. To be efficient, fast & accurate if files have not changed, Git does not store that file again for further more changes with your commit. So, it stores a reference to that snapshot of what all of your files look like at that moment of commit. Every time you commit your file, or save the state of your project in the git project repository, it basically takes a snapshots. Git deals with data more like a set of snapshots, a snapshots of a miniature filesystem. Git utility or git tool is available with almost every Linux distributions. Git is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Like any other version control systems, every Git working directory has a full-fledged repository with complete history and full version-tracking capabilities.

Git was initially used for updating source code of the Linux kernel from around the world. The creator of the Linux kernel designed and developed Git. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development purpose.

Git is better than SVN for speed, data integrity and also support non-linear workflows. It is a distributed revision control system. Git is vastly used for version/revision control for software development for controlling source code. If you are a software developer then you must be familiar with Git. And then we will use a separate machine/computer/host and from there we will use git client to clone, commit, push & pull to that remote git repository server. So the purpose is, we will use a server/machine/host driven by openSUSE 42.1 Linux distribution where we will setup and configure our remote git repository server. Today, we will see how we can setup a remote git repository server for a code base.

Debian git server install