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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
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3.1 Creating a Repository

Creating a repository in Git is simple, but it seems peculiar if you’re coming from Subversion or CVS. Your repository is something that exists separate from your copy of it in most VCSs. Your repository in Git is stored right alongside your working tree in a directory called .git.

To create a repository in Git, you first need to decide where you want to store your project’s code. In this example, we’re going to create a simple HTML page, so let’s call our project mysite. You need to create a directory of the same name; then change into it, and type git init. The whole process should look something like this:

 
​prompt> mkdir mysite
 
​prompt> cd mysite
 
​prompt> git init
 
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