Get started with Git for hardware development

Learn the basics of Git, improve version control, and empower your hardware development team to work smarter and faster.

See how Git empowers hardware teams:

Collaboration

Git enables team members to work on the same project without conflicts. Engineers can develop independently and merge changes only when they’re ready, resulting in smoother teamwork and quicker iterations.

Automated workflow

Git helps streamline repetitive tasks and integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines tailored to hardware development. This enables teams to automate processes like design validation, testing, and deployment, reducing manual effort and errors.

Version control

With Git, hardware engineers can effectively manage complex design iterations. Its version control system ensures every change is documented, categorized, and easily traceable.

Traceability

Git’s commit history allows hardware teams to document every stage of development. This traceability is helpful for audits, troubleshooting, and maintaining accountability across the team.

By integrating Git into your hardware design process, you can document, track, categorize, and manage your design history, from idea to production.

Modernize your hardware workflow with Git

Get started with Git by watching our quick onboarding video. Learn the basics of setting up Git, creating repos, and managing your first commits.

Ready to start?

Download Git software to bring version control to your hardware projects today. Here are some of the most popular ones.

Git commands cheat sheet

Git add [file / dir]
Stage file to local commit

Git branch
List your branches

Git branch [new_branch]
Create a new branch at the current commit

Git checkout [branch]
Switch to another branch

Git clone [url]
Copy entire remote repo into current directory

Git commit-m
“message”

Commit your changes to local filesystem

Git diff
Show list of files that have changed but are not staged

Git diff – – staged
Show list of files that have been staged but not commited

Git fetch
Get all branches

Git log
Show all commits in the current branch’s history

Git log – – follow
Display the commits of the file, even across renames

Git pull
Get and merge any commits from the tracking remote branch

Git push
Push your committed
changes to the remote repo

Git push [alias] [branch]
Push your local branch commits to the remote branch repo

Git rm [file]
Delete the local file and stage the removal for commit

Git show [sha]
Display any Git object in human – readable format

Git status
Show local modified files staged for next commit

More resources

Check out our documentation. From a knowledge base to ebooks and webinars, your account support and resources are written by the Electrical Engineers on our team. We’re hardware people that provide support to engineers like you. 

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