Chapter 4 Adding and Committing: Git Basics

Now it’s time to dig into Git. Part I introduced you to Git; Part II is about specifics. We’ll dig into Git and go through the basic commands you need in your day-to-day use of Git.

This chapter focuses on a few areas that we touched on in Chapter 3, ​Creating Your First Project​. You’ll get a much deeper understanding of:

  • Adding files

  • Creating commits

  • Checking on what has changed

  • Managing files

We’ll be building on the repository we started in Chapter 3, ​Creating Your First Project​. If you skipped ahead to this point, don’t worry—you can always clone the repository to get the repository that I built:

 
​​prompt> git clone git://github.com/tswicegood/mysite.git​​
 

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