Start with Git

Git is a revision control system that lets track changes you make to your files over time. With Git you can revert to various states of your files (Like a time machine).

You can also make a copy of your file. make changes to that copy, and then merge these changes to the original copy, and it is not limited to using Git just for source code files, you can also use it to keep track of text files or even images, which means that Git is not just for developers - anyone can find it helpful.

History of Git

Git is a revision control system that arose out of the Linux kernel development community, which had a very specialized need. As thousands of developers spread worldwide, in many different time zones, working on a very complicated project, it was important to be able to coordinate all that work rationally and not lose track of what was going on, So Git was designed for that purpose and it was and it has grown to be used by millions of other projects today.

Start with Git

Git has two ways to deal with it:

• Command-line
• Gui

We will cover here the command line way because I believe that this is the best way to learn it.

First, you need to install Git on your machine and you can do so from Git -Downloads, So After installing git on your system you can initialize your project simply by running :

$git init test-project

where test-project is your project name. that will initialize an empty git repository in your current directory, or if the project is hosted on a server you can get it by running:

$git clone [URL]

where [URL] is the repository link, so once you finish this step you will have a .git folder in your directory which has the repo details and history.

Configure Git

The next thing you will need to do is to set your username and email address. Git will use this information to identify who made specific changes to files.

• To set username and email run:

$git config --local user.name "your username"
$git config --local user.email "your email address"

So know your repo is ready to have a file and track its change