reading-notes

Reflection and Discussion

GIT INTRO

1. INTRODUCTION

   *Git is an open-source version control system. It was designed and developed by Linus Torvalds (creator of the Linux kernel) and is the most popular version control system to date.

2. BENIFITS

   There are several reasons to use Git (or version control in general). We will just list a few reasons:

*Git helps out a lot with respect to incremental code development and documentation. *Git is relatively easy to pick up and learn. *Git is very efficient and will not adversely affect your code. *If you make a mistake with your code, Git can easily revert you back to a working version of your code. *You can easily maintain multiple backups of your code that can update themselves without you needing to copy/paste your code over. *You can review the history of your code. *You can make multiple versions of your code. *You can work on experimental changes or features without breaking your working code. *You can keep track of contributions to the code when working as part of a team. *Companies use version control, so you will need to learn version control eventually.

1. HOW ITS WORK

   • Tracking and Staging a New File $ git add *

• Committing a File After staging one or multiple files, you should commit the changes and record what you did within the commit message:

$ git commit -m “made change x,y,z”

• Pushing Changes Next, you would push changes to a remote repository. We will discuss remote repositories in more depth in the next section. For now, we will look at a general overview of pushing changes to remotes.

$ git push origin main