Git standard commands

Configuring your git accounts locally

Setting your git username

git config --global user.name "JosiasAurel"

Setting your git email

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Navigating in the terminal

cd <dir_name>

To move one directory backwards

cd ..

To create a new directory

Initializing a new git project locally

• Initializing a new git repository locally

  git init

• Staging a change

  git add <filename>

or use a period (.) to ask git to stage all the modified files in the current directory

  git add .

• Commit a change

  git commit -m "commig message"

• Push your changes to the remote counterpart by running

  git push origin main

Replace main with the name of the branch

• Pull changes from the remote counterpart by running

  git pull origin main