Welcome

introduction-to-github

Install Git on Your Local Machine

To install Git on your local computer, you need to visit this link.

It's easy to install Git on Mac/Linux than Windows 😒

1. Go to a Directory that you need to clone your Repository

Ex: D:\React

2. Right click & open `Git bash here` if you are a *Windows* user or Open `Terminal` if you are a *Mac/Linux* user in that directory location.

3. Type this command on it

git clone <Your-Repository-Url>

You can find Repository URL from the top of the repository

If you get any error while cloning the repo, please read this Stack Overflow Forum

SetUp Git

Download Git:

• Download git for Windows.
• Download git for Mac.
• Download git for Linux & Unix.

Git Configuration

git config --global user.name "John Doe"

git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

So, let's get started!

Git Commands

This command is used to obtain a repository from an existing URL.

Git clone <repository url>

Open repository in local storage

Cd <repository name>

Checkout a branch into your working tree

Git checkout -b name

git checkout branchname

List down branches

git branch

This command lists all the files that have to be committed.

git status

This command adds a file to the staging area.

git add .

This command records or snapshots the file permanently in the version history.

git commit -m 'commit message'

This command sends the committed changes of master branch to your remote repository.

git push

• if we create a branch locally

git push --set-upstream origin <branch name>

This command is used to list the version history for the current branch.

git log