Part 2 Working with Git

Now that you have Git and your repository set up, it’s time to start learning how to interact with Git. A handful of commands are all you need to get you through most tasks. Once you finish the tasks in this part, you’ll know them all.

As we saw in the introduction, the workflow in Git is different from other version control systems and definitely different from working without any version control system. Each time you make a change you want to track, you need to commit it.

The workflow goes like this. First, create your repository—either create a new repository or clone an existing one. Then make some changes, test that they do what you want, commit those changes, make some more changes, and so on. Finally, you ...

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