GIT REPOSITORY HOW-TO GUIDE#

git init/git clone#

A git repository is a virtual storage of your project, allowing to save versions of your code and to access when needed.

SETTING UP A REPOSITORY (Repo) UNDER THE GIT VERSION CONTROL#

Initializing a new repository#

To create a new repo, you'll use the git init command. git init is a one-time command you use during the initial setup of a new repo. Executing this command will create a new '.git' subdirectory in your current working directory. This will also create a new branch called master (by default).

Versioning an existing project with a new git repository#

Assuming you already have a project directory and you would like to create a repo within it:

First cd into root project directory.
execute git init

This will, as mentioned above, create the same .git subdirectory but scoped to that project dir.

Cloning an existing repo#

If a project has been set up in a central repository, the clone command is the most common way to obtain a local development clone. Once a developer (contributor) has obtained a working copy, all version control operations are managed through their local repository.

1	`$foo@bar git clone <repo url>`

git clone creates a local clone of remote repo.

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Saving changes to the repo#

git add / git commit**#

Once you have completed with cloning and and working on project

Add changes to staging area

1	`$foo@bar git add <file names or the whole dir(./ )>`

Commit those changes

1	`$foo@bar git commit -m "Message about the commit"`

Collaboration#

git push#

If git clone was used in initializing a new repository , then this repo is already configured for remote collaboration. git clone will automatically configure the repo with a remote pointed to the Git URL cloned it from. This means that once changes made to a file are committed, they can be pushed using git push those changes to the remote repository.

If you prefer to host your own remote repo initialized with git init, you'll need to set up a "Bare Repository." Both git init and git clone accept a --bare argument. The most common use case for bare repo is to create a remote central Git repository.