Pre Course Git Fu

Terms for learning Git

• Repository - A folder that contains all of a particular projects files and revision history.
• Git - Version Control - A system that records all project changes in a file or set of files for the purpose of future recall and analyzation.
• Clone - A editable copy of a repository on a seperate computer from the copy inhabiting the initial server.
• Fork - A personal of a repository on a user account that allows pull request comparison to the original copy.
• History - The record of all changes that have been made to a particular project by users over time.
• Staging - The step of repository change in which a file is being prepared for the final action of commit.
• Remote - The version of a project hosted on a server such as GitHub which allows syncing to all clones.
• Commit - An individual change to a particular file accompanied by a hash ID for aid in future editing and reversion to previous states.
• Push - The action of sending a commited change to a repository.

Steps to our Lambda School Git Flow

1. Fork repository
2. git clone w/ the repository URL
3. After Changes Made: git status
4. git add <file-name>
5. git status to check what is staged
6. git commit -m 'made changes to the Readme'
7. git push