Git Tutorioal for Bigginers

Initializing your project folder with the git:

Whenever you start working on a project and you want to use git functionalitities and features in it then you will first have to initialize this floder:

git init

Now you can run all the git commands in this folder.

This command will create a hidden folder .git in the folder in which you opened and run the git init command

To see the hidden You can run ls -lart command

Check the status of git:

To check the status of your file you can use the following command

git status

untracked file means: Either You have not added these files to the git or you have modified them after adding these files to the git

You must have to add add all the files to the git if you want to track them and commit them

commit means: that the added/tracked files can be pushed to the remote directory on some VCS hosting server like github or big bucket

Adding/Tracking a file/folder:

To add or start track a new file/folder or modified file/folder that was already added ,you can type the following command:

git add -A (To add all untracked files and folders in the working directory)

git add . (To add all untracked files and folders in the working directory)

git add "file/folder name or relative path" (To add only selected untracked files and folders in the working directory)

Commit the tracked/Added Files:

You can commit (make files ready to push) the files that are being tracked (i.e that has been recently added to the git only) by using the following command

git commit -m "Type any message here relevent to your changes before this commit as notes"

You should check the git status repeatidly: After every add and commit because you often makes changes and add new files to your folder

If you create a new file or make changes to some file then only the files that were added to the tracked file will be commited and to add the new file/s too then you will have to add these untracked files also to the git by the git add command described above.

You can do as many commits as you want:

You always make changes in your project and you can commit as many times as you want after modification in your project and add notes for that commit./p>

See all the commits:

To see all of your commits, you can use the following command:

git log

It will show the all the commits and the notes corresponding to that commits you added in a sequence with the date and time and all other details

Add/track and Commit a file with only one command:

You can use the following command to add and commit a file at the same time:

git commit -a -m "Type any relevent note here that you want and most relevent to this commit"

Note: This command only work for those untracked files and folder that were at least once added with the git add command as described above and will not work for a newly created file or a file that was never added before for tracking.

push your commits to the remote(online) repository:

You can push your whole git working directory to the remote repository you created on the githud or girbucket etc. by using the following command:

git push -u origin master `write here your github/gitbucket etc repository path that you created`

To create a new repository on github you need to create a free/premium account on github and create a new repository their

Before using push command you will have to connect your git and github account by generating an SSH key. To know the method click Here