git_and_github.md

Introduction to Git & Github

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Getting Started
In the terminal start by creating a new directory, then run git init to initialize a git repository

mkdir my_new_directory
ck my_new_directory
git init

Now that we have initialized a git repo, we can add files, and make edits, while trackin changes along the way. We can also revert back to previous 'commits' and merge branches. We'll go into detail about these terms mean and do shortly.

For this example, let's create a static website with a couple of pages, stylesheets, javascripts, and maybe even some fonts.
Tracking Changes
Create a file called index from the command line, then check its git status.

touch index.html  
git status