Git and Git Version Control
Explore foundational Git version control commands critical for penetration testers. Understand how to clone repositories, stage changes, commit updates with messages, and push code to remote GitHub repositories. This lesson helps you manage and share your penetration testing tools efficiently.
Introduction to Git and Git version control
Git and Git version control concepts are necessary skills for any pentester in the field of information security. Growth in the field of penetration testing involves the development of small tools to automate tasks or make log checking more efficient. Such tools can be put on our own GitHub account to benefit others. They can also be obtained from other pentesters and developers who have their software available for free on GitHub. In either case, it’s important for a pentester to be able to apply the various Git commands to manage workflow and make life easier.
The git clone command
The git clone command enables us to make a local ...