First, let's confirm our repository's Git history by running git log, which shows a history of past commits:
$ git logfatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet
The error correctly informs us that there are currently no commits. Now, let's create a short README.md file, which represents the first change we want to commit:
$ cd ~/projects/hobnob/$ echo -e "# hobnob" >> README.md
We've created our first file and thus made our first change. We can now run git status, which will output information about the current state of our repository. We should see our README.md file being picked up by Git:
$ git statusOn branch masterInitial commitUntracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will ...
