Git Setup | First time with git and github | GitHub Setup | Git Commands | Moving Changes from local to remote

STEP 1: CREATE A FOLDER IN COMPUTER(LOCAL REPO)

Open terminal

Goto desktop (cd Desktop)

mkdir Story(Creating a folder name Story )

Cd Story

Create Chapter1.txt file (inside story Folder)

Write QUESTIONS on Chapter1.txt and save it

Come back to terminal

STEP 2: Add Git FOLDER and move Changes(LOCAL REPO) to STAGING AREA

Write git init (Initialise empty git repo)

(Make sure in correct folder which u want to push to remote)

As soon as u enter git init .git file is generated

If u write ls it won’t show u hv to write ls-a to see hidden files

.git file — tracks all your changes, to commit your changes and to perform version control

So currently we are under working directory that is story directory

To Track the files I need to add the files in staging area

Enter git status

Git status shows you that there are untracked files which will be shown in red and this is something inside your working directory but its not yet in the staging area

So in order to add it to staging area and to start tracking changes in it, then we have to use command “git add” filename

Enter git status again, you can see that file has been moved to staging area(green color)

Now files are in staging area ready to be committed

Git commit -m “commit Message ”

Enter git log ( to see what commit u made)

Git diff filename (gives u the difference in changes)

Git checkout “filename” (this command reverts your file to previous change)

STEP 3: Moving Changes to Remote Area

Go to GitHub.com {

- login to GitHub

- create new repository( by clicking + Sign located at top Rightmost corner next to your profile icon)

- Give repository Name

- select private option

- click create repository button

- click check box stating Initialize this repository with a README

- copy the path (something like https://github.com/p77/Story.git)

To push changes to remote repo we need to copy the address of our Github repo and

We are going to use below two lines of code

git remote add origin https://github.com/p77/Story.git

git push -u origin master

- Make sure you are in your local repo folder

- enter git log ( to see previous commits)

- now we need to push these commits to remote(GitHub)

- now add command

git remote add origin https://github.com/p77/Story.git

Now remote is created, now we can push our local repository onto our remote repository which is Called origin

Now enter git push -u origin master

Here master is the main branch of all your commits

STEP 4: Git Useful Commands

• Create .gitignore file

touch .gitignore (create gitignore file)

open .gitignore

In .gitignore file u can add your filename and these will be ignored for GitHub

• Create a New branch

git branch branchName

• To check in which branch you are present

git branch

• To switch to branch

git checkout particularBranchName

• To Push changes to remote

git push -u origin feature branch