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Copyright and License
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Jason Evans
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Contributions
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 (Original author and maintainer for TLDP)
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About My Topic
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In the past, The Linux Documentation Project used CVS as a version control
 system, however a few years ago it was moved to GitHub but there was no
 accompanying documentation for adding new material to TLDP
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Basic Terminology and Commands
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Push
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Pull
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Commit
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What is Git and GutHub?
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What is Git?
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What does GitHub do?
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Installing Git
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From Ubuntu or Debian
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$ sudo apt-get install git
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From Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL
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$ sudo yum install git
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From Fedora 23 or later
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$ sudo dnf install git
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From OpenSuSE or SLES
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$ sudo zypper install git
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Finding TLDP on GitHub
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