Git

Introduction

Git a version control system.
A version control system helps you keep track of:

• All changes to each file.
• Why these changes were made.
• And who made them!

You can use it to create a local repository and manage versions of your files.

First command lines

Create a folder, and initialize a git project in it with the following command:

git init

Create files inside your folder: an index.html and index.css files for example. These will be the files that we will track with git.

Then, stage your files using the following command:

git add —all

Then, create a new version of your git history with the following command:

git commit -m "The commit message"

-m (for message) is what we call an argument, which is added to the main command. In this case, -m allows you to attach a specific message to the commit. If you don’t use the argument, the command “git commit” will open a text editor where you can enter the commit message.

Now you are ready to push your project to a remote repository like github (there are other, like bitbucket or gitlab)!

Additional commands

git status

git branch