Beginners Guide to Git

beginning_guide.md

Beginners Guide to Git

This guide is to show basic commands and processes for utilizing a Local Git Repo. We will go over the following processes:

1. How to initialize git
2. How to check the status of files in the git
3. How to stage files
4. How to commit files

How to initialize Git

To initialize a local Git repo, follow the below steps

• Open the terminal
• Navigate to the folder for your repo
• run the command git init**

Check Git Status

To check the status of the files in your Git repo to see if they need to be updated/added, use the git status command.

How to stage files

To add a file to staging, use the command git add [file_name_and_extension]

How to commit files

Once the files have been added to staging, you can now Commit the changes to the Git repo. If we had a file called sample.txt in staging that we needed to commit, we will use the git commit command. This command should NEVER** be run without the -m extension, which will add a comment to the commit. The first time committing will always look like this: git commit -m 'Initial commit' which tells us that this is the very first commit to this repo.

Example Code

Below is an example of what it would look like to use these commands:

```
cd git_practice
git init
git status
git add 'file1.txt'
git add 'file2.txt'
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
```