Download Git
Download git from this link - https://git-scm.com/downloads
Once installed, open the terminal and run following command to check if git is installed or not:
git --version
If installation is successfull it will give version of the git.
Configure Git
Now let Git know who you are. This is important for version control systems, as each Git commit uses this information:
git config --global [user.name] "NAME"
git config --global user.email "EMAIL"
Creating Git Directory/Folder
Let's create a new folder with name demo for our project:
mkdir demo
cd demo
ls
As we can see the demo directory is empty.
Initialize Git
Once we have navigated to the demo folder, now we can initialize Git in this folder:
git init
Git creates a hidden folder .git to keep track of the changes.
It is a hidden folder hence we used ls -a command to see it
Initialize Git
Let’s make some changes in this newly intialized repository!!
Hence we created a file demo.txt and added text “Hello World” in it.
Check Git Status
git status command shows us the current state of our files in a Git project, telling us if we have made any changes, if there are files ready to be saved, and if there are new files that Git hasn’t started tracking yet.
