Git Basics

This practice will help you get comfortable with basic git operations: making changes and publishing them.

We will learn the following git operations:

• add changes to the staging area
• commit changes
• push local commits to publish them to GitHub
• pull changes from the remote repository
• 'branch' create a new branch named "branch-1" and push to Github

Other useful commands to see what is going on the git repository:

• status
• log

Exercises

• Fork this repo
• Clone this repo
• Update the README: add some lines to the end and push them to GitHub
• Create a new file called newfile.txt, add some contents to it and push it to GitHub
• Update newfile.txt and push the changes to GitHub
• Open the repository on GitHub and make changes to newfile.txt
• Pull the changes to your local repository
• Create a new branch named "branch-1" and push to Github

Practice Output

1. Your repo url in Github https://github.com/ericmarcmartin/git-basic.git
2. Your answer for What is the difference between add, commit, and push? The add in git adds changes or updates from the user's working directory to the staging area. However, changes are still not recorded until command commit is executed. Git command commit takes everything from the staging area and capture snapshot of user's repository. This snapshot will then be uploaded to the remote repository after git command push is executed.