demo

A demonstration repository for first-time git users

Commit

• A commit is a record of changes you have made from the previous commit. Repositories are initialized with an initial commit. Each commit is denoted by a hash in hexadecimal format.
• To commit changes, they must first be added. Start with the following command in the root of the repository:

git status

The output for this repository is as follows:

On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   README.md

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

To add the changes to the current commit, we can use:

git add <filename>

Lets try it on README.md (this file)

PS C:\Development\demo> git add README.md
PS C:\Development\demo> git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
        modified:   README.md

PS C:\Development\demo> 

To commit the changes we can use

git commit -am "<commit message>"

Actions

• Branching: We can start a new branch with the following command

    git checkout -b <new_branch_name>