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The document provides instructions for learning basic Git commands including initializing and setting up a repository, adding and committing files, checking the log and status, checking out older versions of files, and resetting the repository.

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GIT Exercise 02

The document provides instructions for learning basic Git commands including initializing and setting up a repository, adding and committing files, checking the log and status, checking out older versions of files, and resetting the repository.

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Exercise (Instructions): Basic Git Commands


Objectives and Outcomes

In this exercise you will get familiar with some basic Git commands. At the end of this exercise you will be able to:

Set up a folder as a Git repository


Perform basic Git operations on your Git repository

Basic Git Commands


At a convenient location on your computer, create a folder named git-test.
Open this git-test folder in your favorite editor.
Add a file named index.html to this folder, and add the following HTML code to this file:

1 <!DOCTYPE html>
2 <html>
3 <head></head>
4
5 <body>
6 <h1>This is a Header</h1>
7 </body>
8 </html>

Initializing the folder as a Git repository

Go to the git-test folder in your cmd window/terminal and type the following at the prompt to initialize the folder
as a Git repository:

1 git init

Checking your Git repository status

Type the following at the prompt to check your Git repository's status:

1 git status

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Adding files to the staging area

To add files to the staging area of your Git repository, type:

1 git add .

Commiting to the Git repository

To commit the current staging area to your Git repository, type:

1 git commit -m "first commit"

Checking the log of Git commits

To check the log of the commits to your Git repository, type

1 git log --oneline

Now, modify the index.html file as follows:

1 <!DOCTYPE html>
2 <html>
3 <head></head>
4
5 <body>
6 <h1>This is a Header</h1>
7 <p>This is a paragraph</p>
8 </body>
9 </html>

Add a sub-folder named templates to your git-test folder, and then add a file named test.html to the templates
folder. Then set the contents of this file to be the same as the index.html file above.
Then check the status and add all the files to the staging area.
Then do the second commit to your repository
Now, modify the index.html file as follows:

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1 <!DOCTYPE html>
2 <html>
3 <head></head>
4
5 <body>
6 <h1>This is a Header</h1>
7 <p>This is a paragraph</p>
8 <p>This is a second paragraph</p>
9 </body>
10 </html>

Now add the modified index.html file to the staging area and then do a third commit.

Checking out a file from an earlier commit


To check out the index.html from the second commit, find the number of the second commit using the git log,
and then type the following at the prompt:

1 git checkout <second commit's number> index.html

Resetting the Git repository


To discard the effect of the previous operation and restore index.html to its state at the end of the third commit,
type:

1 git reset HEAD index.html

Then type the following at the prompt:

1 git checkout -- index.html

You can also use git reset to reset the staging area to the last commit without disturbing the working directory.

Conclusions

At the end of this exercise you should have learnt some basic Git commands. Experiment with these commands until
you fully understand how to use Git.
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