Learning Node.js Development

Using Git

As mentioned earlier, Git is responsible for keeping track of the changes to our project, but by default it doesn't actually track any of our files. We have to tell Git exactly which files we want it to keep track of and there's a good reason for this. There are files in every project that we're most likely not going to want to add to our Git repo, and we'll talk about which ones and why later. For now let's go ahead and run the following command:

git status

Now all these commands need to get executed from inside of the root of the project. If you try to run this outside a repository, you'll get an error like git repository not found. What that means is that Git cannot find that .git directory in order to actually get the status ...