Great work! In the last lesson you learned to use git add <filename> to add a file to the staging area of your repository, and then git commit to permanently save these changes. That cycle – make changes, add changes, commit changes – is fundamental to the Git workflow and we will revisit it several more times over the course

In the previous lesson, you created a new folder called project_repo that contained a file called doc1.txt. You then initialized the folder as a repository by running the command git init in that folder. Subsequently, Git started to monitor everything in your repository: new files, deleted files and changed files. You also learned how to check the current state of

In lesson 0 you learned to configure Git. You will now learn how to use Git to start tracking files in a folder. Let’s create your first repository. The first thing you need to do is create a new folder. This is where you will put the project files you want to put under version control. Don’t worry if you

After installing Git, you will have to provide your name and email address. You will use the –global flag to set a default Git user.name and user.email for all your projects. This can be overriden by –local if ever you want to use a different username or email for a specific project. git config –global user.name “Martin Heroux” git config

These lessons are an introductory Git tutorial. They covers the basics of creating local repositories as well as tracking new files and changes to existing files. They will also cover branching, merging and working with remote repositories. What is Git. Git is a version control system. As described by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub in the introduction of their book