Answers

Here are the answers to the questions given above:

1. Use git init, git add ., and git commit to create a repository from existing files. Use git clone to get your own copy of the existing repository.
2. Use git commit or git commit -a to create a new revision, and use git push to publish changes.
3. Use git fetch to get updates from other developers, or git pull to get updates and merge them together. Use git merge (or, as mentioned in later chapters, git rebase) to combine changes.
4. Merge conflicts are presented using the <<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>> markers; you can also find the ||||||| marker used, depending on the configuration. To resolve the conflicts, you need to edit files marked as conflicting into shape, use git add on them when finished, and then finalize the merge with git commit or git merge --continue (or rebase with git rebase --continue).
5. To make Git ignore specific types of files, you need to add appropriate...