Validation

Let’s make sure if things are up and running as they should.

Prerequisites

Make sure you are logged in to your attendee VM. The credentials will be provided by your instructor. See the ‘Introduction’ chapter if you don’t know how to connect to your VM.

Exercise - git manual

Open your terminal application and run the plain git command in order to display the git manual:

git

Exercise - git version

To get some information about the version of your git installation run:

git --version

Which version of git are you running?

Solution

Depending on your installation your output looks similar to this:

$ git --version
git version 2.49.0

Next see the git manual chapter to get familiar with it.