This tutorial aims to teach you how to use git in an efficient manner for
your projects. This guide does not focus on git commands, but rather on
the things you need to do in order to write code in an easy to maintain
fashion.
When using git for the first time, the first step you need to do is to
identify yourself, so that whoever is interested in the portion of code you
wrote, they can easily reach you for further questions. In order to identify
yourself, you need to specify your name and email address to the git engine.
This is intuitively done using the git config command:
git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
Run these commands on your local computer; make sure you use a valid name and email address!
In order to modify the sources of this repository, you need to bring the sources on your local computer. This is done by cloning the remote repository from GitLab.
git clone [email protected]:razvan.crainea/git-tutorial.git
The command above will clone the repository in the git-tutorial folder in
the current directory. Go to your new local git repository:
cd git-tutorial
By the time you see this message, there are already two versions of the
README.md file: the first one is the one you initially saw when you opened
the repository's link, containing only the Introduction and Identity sections.
The second one is a new version that contains the Cloning section added later.
You can view the two version, along with some details, by running the
following command:
git log
In order to bring on your local station all the changes done on the remote repository, you need to pull the changes:
git pull
Check again that you have all four versions in the log:
git log
TODO: Replace this line with your acknowledgement :).