Getting started with Git

1. Check if git is already installed

git --version

2. Download and install

Download git from git-scm

3. Add email and username to git

git config --global user.email"[email protected]"
git config --global user.name"yourGitHubusername"

4. Add file/folders to git - tracking

• Go to the location of the file/folder/project

  cd /Users/filelocation
  

• Initialize empty Git repository

  git init
  

⋅⋅⋅ --> A hidden folder called .git will be generated. If you want to see the folder, you need to

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

• Check the status of branch master

git status

• Include the files to be committed

git add <filename>/ git add . / git add *.txt

• Commit & show msg (describe the actions done)

git commit -m "added text1.txt"

• Create 'New Repository' in GitHub

git remote add origin <location of the repository>

• Push the master

git push -u origin master

Other commands

• Show what has been done so far

git log