Hello Readers! welcome to this Git series of tutorials.

i'll divide this series into different topics, so please hang in there.

For the starting i'll start with basics!

What is a GIT?

Git is a version Control Software which is used to maintain change history of a codebase.

What is a GitHub?

GitHub is a online website which is used to store all these git commit histories.

How to install Git?

To install git on linux host we can use these following commands.
Note: Please refer to the official website if case of any errors!!

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git-all

How to confirm successful installation of the Git?

to ensure git is available on the local machine, we can check it's version by using the command!

git --version

How to initialize a Git repository on the local machine!!?

to instalize a git repository on the local machine.

• Step 1 : navigate to the given directory
• Step 2 : initialize the git repository

git init

How to ignore certain files in git?

sometimes there are certain files which we dont want to upload on remote repository. to make this happen, we need to add the name of that file into .gitignore file

echo <filename> >> .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Git ignore file added"

How to manage Git branches

How to create a new branch?

branches contains sequence of commits in git.
we can create or delete as much as branch as we required.

To create new branch

# this command will create a new branch with given branch name
git branch <branch-name>
# this command will create a new branch and switch to that branch
git checkout -b <branch-name>

How to rename a branch

to rename a branch in git, use the given command!

# first switch to the main branch
git checkout <branch-name>

# second use the following command to change the branch name
git branch -m <old-name> <new-name>

How to delete a branch

to delete a branch in git we use.

git branch -d <branch-name>

How to watch the commit history

to watch the commit history we have git log command

git log