Initailizing/Creating a new git repository

Used to create a new git repository

git init

Adding files or folders to the repo

Used to add new files or folders to the repo

• To add a file

git add filename.extension

• To add everything inside a folder

cd foldername
git add .

• To add everything in the whole project

git add -A

Commiting added changes

Used to commit (`i.e to confirm`) the changes made by add comman

git commit -m "message for the commit"

To add and commit everything at once

git commit -am "message for the commit"

*Note: Use this only if you know all the file changes will have the same commit message.*

To commit mutiple line

Used to add commits with multiple lines

git commit

• A file will open
• Write your multiple lines commit
• Save the file and close the file

*For using VS code as your commit editor first run this command*

git config --global core.editor "code --wait"

• It will set the VS code editor as the git editor

Pulling repo from remote servers

Used to pull the contents from Remote git repo

git pull

Clone the remote repo

Used to clone all the contents of the remote repo

git clone <url-to-remote-repo>

*Note: < > are not needed in the command it is only to visually specifiy that url-to-remote-repo is a dynamic text*

Pushing to the remote repo

Used to push contents to the remote repo

git push

Mergining Github Repo to a already existing project

Used to connect the empty github repo to a project in your local device

• Initailize the project as a github repo

git init

• Add the github repo to the project

git remote add origin <url-to-github-repo>

• Create a branch called main as newer github repo tends to have main as the main branch not master

git branch -M main

• Add the contents of the project

git add .

• Commit the changes

git commit -m "message for your commit"

*Note: adding and commiting doesn't have to be done in this extact way you can add and commit in your own preffered way*

• Push the commits

git push -u origin main

*Note: git push -u origin main is done only for this time and pushes afterwards can be simply git push*