| 7 | Committing Changes |
Git tracks changes to your repository through commits, which you
make with the git commit command. It is
the workhorse of Git and something you’ll use a ton.
Prior to most commits, you need to stage the files you want to
commit using the git add. You can use
it to stage specific changes, portions of files, and other things
that are covered in more detail in Task 6, Staging Changes to Commit.
Each commit requires a commit message. You can use
-m and a string in quotation marks
as your message or use Git’s editor to write a message. There’s
more information on the editor in Task 2, Configuring Git. You can specify multiple
paragraphs by specifying multiple -m
parameters.
You can avoid git add and commit every ...