Understanding The Git Workflow :Working Directory, Staging, Commit and Push

rachel ngunjiri — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:02:55 +0000

Git is very interesting to learn as a first time data science and analytics student that has no prior background.

At first I thought well we are coding on the first day.

Luckily, we had a very patient teacher for this. We started by in installation of the software , then to installation of GitHub.

I remember as we GitHub we setup our email and we got SSH keys. Then we setup our identity, git config--global user.name, _git config --global user.email.

Password entry on Git Bash was I found very interesting.

When asked for it on the terminal it was invisible, I thought I wasn't typing anything at all.

I remember as code such as cd , ls ,cat,, git push and many more code.

What started as something that looked intimidating quickly became something I genuinely enjoyed learning.

So what is the Git workflow

The git workflow is the process of making changes to files, preparing those changes , saving them in Git, and sending them to remote repository such as GitHub

We start by setting up as working directory of GitBash. A working directory is where you work on you files.

On the directory our can create and make changes files and README.MD which is description of what you are working on.

After that you move all you changes to your current directory onto the staging area and proceed to commit.

I describe commit as a snapshot of all the changes i have chosen to record, basically it helps me remember all i changed the directory,

Finally you push it to remote repository such as GitHub.

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Understanding The Git Workflow :Working Directory, Staging, Commit and Push

So what is the Git workflow