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Introduction to Git

George Boorman

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Chapter 1 recap

• Benefits and applications of Git for version control
• Navigating the terminal - ls, cd
• How to initiate a Git project - git init
• How to use Git to track your files - git add ., git commit -m

Chapter 2 recap

• How Git stores data

  1. Commit
  2. Tree
  3. Blob

• git log

  • 3
  • --since
  • --until

• git show c27fa856

Chapter 2 recap

Command	Function
git diff report.md	Show changes between unstaged file and the latest commit
git diff --staged report.md	Show changes between staged file and the latest commit
git diff 35f4b4d 186398f	Show changes between two commits using commit hashes
git diff HEAD~1 HEAD~2	Show changes between two commits using HEAD syntax

Chapter 2 recap

Command	Result
git revert HEAD	Revert all files from a given commit
git revert HEAD --no-edit	Revert without opening a text editor
git revert HEAD -n	Revert without making a new commit
git checkout HEAD~1 -- report.md	Revert a single file from the previous commit
git restore --staged report.md	Remove a single file from the staging area
git restore --staged	Remove all files from the staging area

What's next?

• Branches
• Remote repos
• Rebasing
• Bisecting
• Submodules

Congratulations

Introduction to Git