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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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3 Creating a New Repository

Repositories in Git are stored on your local file system right alongside the code they track. You create a repository by typing git init in the directory that you want to start tracking files in.

You use two repositories in Git to collaborate with others: a private one and a public one. Your private repository—the one we’re creating here—is where you do all your work. It’s the repository with the working tree.

This two-tier system gives you the ability to track local experimental changes while only sharing changes via your public repository that are ready for others to work with. Be careful that you don’t allow yourself to code in a cave, though. Hoarding all your changes until they are “just right” is the ...

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