For linux
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git
For Mac
brew install git
For windows, download git from the following source - https://gitforwindows.org/
to check if git is successfully installed, type git in your terminal and you should see a bunch of functions appear from it
substitute the following with your details of your github account
$ git config --global user.name "Emma Paris"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- Creating a local repository - go to the directory which you want to make a git repository
$ cd myproject
$ git init
- Checking tracked and untracked files
$ git status
- Adding changes to be tracked
Either a file can be added or all files can be added
$ git add <filename>
$ git add .
- Committing a change
Once the changes are added, the changes can be committed, which means you are sealing them, in order to do so
$ git commit -m "YOUR COMMIT MESSAGE"
- Pushing the file to your online repository on github.
To do this we set the
git remote add origin <URL OF REPO>
git push origin master
- Getting changes from the remote
git pull