Basics
Installing Git
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choco install gitbrew install gitsudo apt install git:::
Creating a git repository
You can create a local git repo by running git init in the folder of your code. This local repository can be used with all of git’s features.
Adding files
With git you have control over what files you commit (“save”) in version control and when, this can be done at any time with any files.
Staging
Git has a concept called staging which means changes you want to save. To save a change you first need to add it to staging using git add. Some examples are shown below.
- Add all files with changes to staging:
git add . - Add one file with changes to staging:
git add file1 - Add multiple files with changes to staging:
git add file1 file2 file3 - Add all files in a folder with changes to staging:
git add folder1
Committing
Once a change has been saved to staging we can commit (“save”) that change to version control through the commit command. When saving a change we also need to add a message explaining what the change does. The command to commit changes is: git commit -m "commit message". Good commit messages should explain what has been done, a good format is Conventional Commits which can be found here.