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M. TsitoaraBeginning Git and GitHubhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5313-7_3

3. Getting Started

Mariot Tsitoara1 
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Antananarivo, Madagascar
 

You’re finally ready to get started with Git! In this chapter, you’ll be learning a few Git terminologies and concepts necessary for any project. Then, you’ll be tasked to set up a project, make changes to it, review the changes, and finally navigate between versions. Let’s go!

Repositories

A repository is a storage where all your project and all the changes made to it are kept. You can think of it as a “change database.” But don’t worry; it is only a normal folder on your system, so it is very easy to manipulate.

For each project you want to manage with Git, you have to set up a repository ...

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