Git Basic Operations

Git's job is to create and save snapshots of your project and compare them with subsequent snapshots.

This chapter will introduce commands related to creating and submitting snapshots of your project.

The commonly used Git commands are the following 6: git clone, git push, git add, git commit, git checkout, git pull. We will discuss them in detail later.

Explanation:

workspace: Working Directory
staging area: Staging Area/Cache
local repository: Repository or Local Repository
remote repository: Remote Repository

A simple sequence of operations:

$ git init    
$ git add .    
$ git commit

git init - Initialize a repository.
git add . - Add files to the staging area.
git commit - Add the contents of the staging area to the repository.

Repository Creation Commands

The table below lists Git commands for creating repositories:

Command	Description
git init	Initialize a repository
git clone	Copy a remote repository, i.e., download a project.

Submission and Modification

Git's job is to create and save snapshots of your project and compare them with subsequent snapshots.

The table below lists commands related to creating and submitting snapshots of your project:

Command	Description
git add	Add files to the staging area
git status	Check the current status of the repository, display files that have been changed.
git diff	Compare differences in files, i.e., the difference between the staging area and the working directory.
git commit	Submit the staging area to the local repository.
git reset	Revert to a previous version.
git rm	Remove files from the staging area and the working directory.
git mv	Move or rename files in the working directory.

Commit Log

Command	Description
git log	View historical commit records
git blame <file>	View the historical modification records of a specified file in list form

Remote Operations

Command	Description
git remote	Remote repository operations
git fetch	Fetch a repository from a remote
git pull	Download remote code and merge
git push	Upload remote code and merge

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