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An Ultimate Guide to Git and Github 🚀

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💠 Introduction

Git is a source code management technology used by DevOps. It is a free and open-source version control system that is used to efficiently manage small to extremely big projects.

Git is a version control system. Version control is a file manager that maintains track of changes to your projects over time and keeps a complete history of whatever you're working on. It allows many devs around the globe to work together on the same project at the same time

GitHub is a site that hosts Git repositories, but it also has a lot of its own features. It is a web-based GUI for Git, which is a command-line application. Each project has access control and numerous collaborative capabilities, such as wikis and other task management tools.

It is the home of 56 million ( September 2020 ) developers around the globe which is currently owned by Microsoft

💠 Basic GitHub terms

1. Fork: Fork is a copy of another user's repository that lives on your personal Github account. The major reason for this is to adopt other people's repositories to meet your needs.

2. Main: When you create a new repository, it comes with a default development branch.

3. Readme: It is a text file that contains information about other files in a repository. It is usually a basic plain text file called Read Me that serves as documentation.

4. Repository: A Repository is a place where tour work will be stored in a directory or storage space. This is sometimes abbreviated as "repo" by GitHub users.

5. License: If you want your repository to be genuinely open source, you'll need to license it so that others can use, modify, and distribute it.

6. Pull request: It allows you to announce a change made by you in the branch. It is a way for a developer to let the rest of the team know when they've finished a feature.

Basic Git Command

1. git init: The git init command creates a new Git repository. Executing this command creates a .git subdirectory in the current working directory, which contains all of the necessary Git metadata for the new repository.

2. git clone: The git clone command is used to create a copy of a specific repository or branch within a repository.

3. git branch <branch-name>: This git command is used to create a new branch for a specific repository.

4. git checkout <branch-name>: The git checkout command lets you navigate between the branches created by the git branch.

5. git add: It is the first command in a chain of operations that directs Git to "save" a snapshot of the current project state, into the commit history. It is used to tracks your file and changes in Git

6. git commit: The git commit command takes a snapshot of the current state of the project's changes.

7. git push : This command is used to upload git commits to a remote repository like Github

💠 GitHub special repository

GitHub offers a special repository by your username, which should contain a readme.md and it will show in your GitHub profile, just like mine

💠 Bonus

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@eddiejaoude 💠Bonus #2

@elmiracodes also created a great cheat sheet, where common git command are explained very clearly. 👇

https://twitter.com/elmiracodes/status/1460311181827219459