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Basic Terminology

• Commit: a snapshot that captures the state of your project at a particular point in time.
• HEAD: a pointer that usually points to the tip of the currently checked out branch.
• Branch: a series of commits with a pointer that points to the most recent one.
• Working directory: the local workspace hosting your entire project files and directories and where you experiment with new changes.
• Staging area: a place where changed files are added before they can be part of the next commit.
• Repository: the hidden .git directory that is created and used by Git to keep track of changes to your files.
• Remote: the name of a pointer, typically named "origin," that points to the URL of a cloud-hosted repository.