Once Git is installed, we need to initialize and configure our project directory as a Git repository by following these steps:
- Run the following command in the application's root directory (ABQ_Data_Entry):
git init
This command creates a hidden directory under our project root called .git and initializes it with the basic files that make up the repository. The .git directory will contain all the data and metadata about our saved revisions.
- Before we add any files to the repository, we need to instruct Git to ignore certain kinds of files. For example, Python creates bytecode (.pyc) files whenever it executes a file, and we don't want to save these as part of our code. To do this, create a ...
