Storing file revisions with Git commit
We have initialized a new repository for our project. Now we will learn how to store file modifications using git add and git commit.
Getting ready
Make sure you have initialized a new git repository and created sample files under your project directory. Follow the previous recipes to get more details.
How to do it…
Now that we have a new repo initialized for our project, let's go ahead and check in our files.
Before we add any files, simply check the current status of the repo with the
git statuscommand. This should list all the files under theUntracked fileslist, as follows:$ git status
As shown by
git status, none of our files are being tracked byGit. We need to add those files before Git tracks any changes to them.Let's add all the files to the tracking list with
git add:$ git add .This command does not create any output, but stages all untracked files to be added to the repo. The symbol (
.) specifies the current directory and processes all files...