This tutorial aims to teach you how to use git in an efficient manner for your projects. This guide does not focus on git commands, but rather on the things you need to do in order to write code in an easy to maintain fashion.

When using git for the first time, the first step you need to do is to identify yourself, so that whoever is interested in the portion of code you wrote, they can easily reach you for further questions. In order to identify yourself, you need to specify your name and email address to the git engine. This is intuitively done using the git config command:

git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Run these commands on your local computer; make sure you use a valid name and email address!

In order to modify the sources of this repository, you need to bring the sources on your local computer. This is done by cloning the remote repository from GitLab.

git clone [email protected]:razvan.crainea/git-tutorial.git

The command above will clone the repository in the git-tutorial folder in the current directory. Go to your new local git repository:

cd git-tutorial

By the time you see this message, there are already two versions of the README.md file: the first one is the one you initially saw when you opened the repository's link, containing only the Introduction and Identity sections. The second one is a new version that contains the Cloning section added later. You can view the two version, along with some details, by running the following command:

git log

In order to bring on your local station all the changes done on the remote repository, you need to pull the changes:

git pull

Check again that you have all four versions in the log:

git log

TODO: Replace this line with your acknowledgement :).