Git Best Practices Guide

Initializing a new repository

If you want to create a repository in an existing project, just type the following command line:

Erik@local:~$ cd myProject
Erik@local:~/myProject$ git init .

Otherwise, you have to create an empty directory and type git init inside it, as shown:

Erik@local:~$ mkdir myProject
Erik@local:~$ cd myProject
Erik@local:~/myProject$ git init

This will create a folder named .git inside the current directory that contains the following files used by Git:

• Config: This is used with the configuration for the local Git repository
• HEAD: This lists a file that is the current head branch
• Refs directory: This contains references to a commit for a branch