git-commands-for-terminal-app.md

1

saving our work to git

git add .

git commit -m "a message"

2

check what branch you're on, any changes to the files

git status

3

if you want a directory to have git in it

git init 

4

to add a remote (github address) to your local working directory

git remote add origin <something.git>

we're adding a remote and we're naming that remote origin

5

to push code to github

git push origin master

when it says -u that means that it's making that branch and remote the defaults so you can just do git push

we're pushing the code to the origin remote (the github adress)

the code that's pushed will only be the master branch