Git for Humans

RESOURCES

Command Reference

Here’s a quick list of every Git command referenced in this book, plus a few others. Arguments in square brackets (e.g., [thing]) are optional.

git config [--global] <key> <value>

Updates Git’s settings, modifying the preference identified by <key>, such as user.email, with the given <value>, such as [e-mail]. The --global flag saves preferences to a file in your home directory, so Git will apply them to every project on your computer. Otherwise they’re saved and applied only within a specific project.

git init

Creates a new Git project inside the current working directory—that is, if you’re inside a directory named my-awesome-project that contains a website you’re working on, running git init ...