Git or Github

What is Git or GitHub?

  • First and foremost, Git is not Github. They are two completly different things.
  • GitHub is a website where a single person or a collective, can save their code.
    • Unlike other website that can be used as such, GitHub is sorely designed for the purpose to save code.
    • GitHub as something called version control, which keeps and tracks previous saves which are regarded as commits.
    • GitHub version control, in layman terms is save points done to a document. Each save point is saved.
    • GitHub allows collaboration with other programmers, which makes coding a much easier experience for a collective.
  • Git is a language used in GitHub, and other clients such as Gitlab and BitBucket.

Git Code To Know

  • git add specifiedFile: This git command will add specifiedFile to Git flow and makes it ready to be pushed.
  • git add .: This git command will add ALL files to Git flow since (.) was used.
  • git clone HTTP: This git command will clone a GitHub repository onto the HardDrive.
  • git status: This git command will provide information on what changed. Meaning if the cloned file has been changed.
  • git commit -m “MyMessage”: This git command the commit the specifiedfile
  • git push changedFile: This git command will push the committed file.

  • Remember that when writing messages are written in the imperative verberage.