Git for Beginners: Basics and Essential Commands

Version control is a must have skill today for every developer as it helps to collaborate and track the changes.

What is git?
Git helps to :

• track the changes
• who did the changes
• revert the changes if needed
• keeps the history of changes

Basic terminology git:

• Repository: It is a folder which contains your project files and .git hidden folder to track the changes
• Commit: It is a snapshot of particular project at particular time Each commit has a hash code and a message
• Branch: A parallel line of development allow main.So the code in main branch is not affected and once the feature is developed you merge that in main branch
• HEAD: It is a pointer that tells your current commit you are working on
• Working Area: The place where you edit the files
• Staging Area: Where you prepare your changes to be added

Git Basic commands:

• git init : Initalizes git and creates .git hidden folder
• git status : shows current status of file, if files needs to be added or committed.
• git logs : Show commit history
• git add : add the file to staging area
• git add . : add the files to staging area
• git commit : Save the staged changes as commit