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

• 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

1. Your repo url in Github
2. Your answer for What is the difference between add, commit, and push?

Git "add" command adds modified or new files to the "staging area" that is ready for a commit. The git "commit" command creates a record of the changes added to the staging area. This allows developers to look at the history of changes. Finally, the git "push" command allows developers working locally to upload their change history or "commits" to the online repositories.