How-to-begin.md

Initalising an empty git repository

git init

Checking status of git repository

git status

Adding files

To add all untracked files: git add .
To add a specific file: git add fileName.txt

Removing files

git rm file.txt
To remove directories, git rm -r dirName

To record all removals, additions, and modifications in the working tree use: git add -A

Commit files

• Giving a commit message: git commit -m "Meaningful commit message"
  

• Adding more files to the last commit (no change in commit message):
  git add file.txt
git commit --amend --no-edit
  

  In case commit message has to be changed too, git commit --amend suffices the purpose.
  

  Note : To push it now, you need to use the force command (Careful!)
  git push origin master --force
  

Configure the author name and email address to be used with your commits

git config --global user.name "xyz"
git config --global user.email [email protected]

View all the file diff

git diff

Checking the commits history

git log

• Summary parameter will show information such as creations, renames and mode changes: git log --summary