Git is a software development versioning control system. Using Git with Moodle will allow you to easily upgrade and maintain your Moodle site. First you will need to install Git by running the command:

 

sudo yum install git

 

Once Git is installed move into your web server document root. To move to the standard web server document root in CentOs enter the following command:

 

cd /var/www/html

 

Next we will clone a local version of Moodle by entering the following command:

 

git clone git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git

 

Once this command is finished, move into the moodle directory it creates by entering the command:

 

cd moodle

 

You can list Moodle branches available by entering the following command:

 

git branch -a

 

You can then select the branch which you want to track, here we will track Moodle 3.0:

 

git branch –track MOODLE_30_STABLE origin/MOODLE_30_STABLE

 

We can now checkout this Moodle branch:

 

git checkout MOODLE_30_STABLE

 

You are now using Git to maintain your Moodle site. If you need to update your moodle site you can navigate into your Moodle directory by typing:

 

cd /var/www/html/moodle

 

Once here you just need to run the command:

 

git pull

 

That’s all there is to downloading and updating Moodle using Git!