Day 2: Git Basics – Learn Git Init, Add, Commit, and Log in 10 Minutes
Welcome to Day 2 of the IT & Code Foundation series! 🚀
In this video, we introduce you to Git, your personal time machine for code.
Learn the core Git workflow using Git Bash – including git init, git add, git commit, and git log.
🔧 What You’ll Learn:
What is Git and why it's used
Setting up your Git identity
Initializing a Git repository
Staging files using git add
Saving your work with git commit
Viewing your commit history with git log
👨💻 Tools Used: Git Bash on Windows
📁 Project: my-first-project
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⏱️ Timestamped Breakdown
🎬 Day 2: Git Basics
00:00 – Introduction
Welcome to Day 2 of the IT & Code Foundation series. Let’s explore the Git Basics
00:29 so for we learned pwd, ls, etc., till created folder myfirstproject
tion Step-1: Set up your Git identity git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
03:04- Move into your project folder cd my-first-project Initialize Git git init
03:33 - ls -a verify the .git file as hidden file: Check Git status
04:04 - Step 3: Add the file to staging git add index.html
git status
04:28 - Step 4: Commit the file it commit -m "Initial commit: Add index.html"
04:54 - Step 8: View your Git history git log
05:12 - First version is saved in the machine.
05:51 myfirstproject folder in demonstration
06:14 git --version
06:44 git config --global user.name "yourname" and git config --global user.email 'emailaddress"
07:54 cd myfirstproject folder
08:22 git init demonstration
08:57 ls and ls -a shown the hidden folder
09:27 git status
10:14 git add index.html
10:39 git status
11:11 git commit -m "add index.html"
12:21 git log
12:53 recap what we did four steps
13:14 Day 3 push your code to GitHub from local to cloud in minutes.