Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Here, we're doing a few things.

First, after we've created our foo file with some text in, we add that file:

$ git add README

In this small command, we're actually adding the README file to Git's index.

Anything we stage in this manner is added in the next commit:

$ git commit -m "Adding README to repository." 

Here, we're committing (as the name suggests) our added changes to the repository. We also include a message as part of the command (with -m) instead of letting git commit drop us into whatever our default editor is set to (because every commit should have a message, since it prompts you to write one).

Lastly, we pushed our change:

$ git push

In technical terms, we're informing the remote repository (on 192.168.33.11 ...