Git for Termux

Holla 🤠 my Friend, let me first introduce myself my name Jyotirmoy barman a tech nerd from the west part of India 🇮🇳 (Meghalaya). In this article, I am going to tell about git and how to install it in termux, as I know many beginners may be using the phone to do some light development or don't have money to buy a laptop.

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Git

As the internet says git is a version control to track the code changes and there is not any second thought. I am not going to explain it in detail, If you want to read more about it you can go to Wikipedia.

Installation

Installation of Termux on a phone is simple, just follow these steps.

step 1

If you want to install git on your phone then you must install the termux app first. As the termux app updated version is not available in play you must use the third party website to install it.

There are two places from where we can download the latest version of Termux.

F-droid : Termux ✅

Github : Termux

step 2

After you have successfully installed termux on your phone, now you need to run some commands to update the packages and install git.

First, update the packages, this will update all the packages in Termux
pkg update && pkg upgrade
Run this command to install git in termux

pkg install git
I also recommend to install gh, it is a command line tool by github.

pkg install gh

Recently Github announced that it will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations, that's why we need gh (Github command-line tool) to push our code in Github.

What is Github?

Github is a code hosting platform, owned by Microsoft.

For more information visit Github-wikipedia

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Learn

Till now you must install git and gh in termux, now it's time to learn it. First of all, we need to set up our git and gh to work flawlessly

write the following command to set up.

gh auth login Login to your Github account.
After you log in to your Github account, now setup your git
git config --global user.name "name"
git config --global user.email "email"
Now you are all set

Make Repository

If you want to track a folder you need need to init a folder. I recommended you first go to your Github account and make a repository.

After that clone it in your local environment git clone "repository link"

run this code

gh create repo create and follow the command.

Push and Pull

After you have written some code in your repository and wish to upload it to your GitHub account then run this command.

git add . this will add all the code or if you want to upload a single file git add "file name"
git commit -m "Message" write what you have done in "Message"
git push this will upload all the code.

If you have done any change in your repository from Github or any other local machine and push it to your repository, then you can run

git pull

this will pull all the latest code and keep you up-to-date.

Command table

Here are the commands and their action for git and gh.

git --help
gh --help

Command	Action
git --version	to see what version of git you are using
git clone	to clone the repository in the local environment
git add .	to add all the files
git commit -m “message”	to commit with message
git commit -m “title” -m “description”	to commit with message and description
git push	to push code to the origine
git pull	to pull the code from the online repo.
git config --global user.name "name"	to set the name
git config --global user.email "email"	to set email
git branch --list	to see what branch we have
git branch	to create branch
git branch -d	safe branch delete
git branch -D	Force delete
git branch -m	merge branch
git status	To see the changes
git switch	to change existing branch
git switch -c	to change to new branch
git log	Show commit logs

Command	Action
gh auth login	to login in Github
git auth logout	Log out of a GitHub host
git auth status	View authentication status
Install git	brew install git
Install gh	brew install gh