Creating your first Git project

In this recipe, we will take a look at creating your first Git project on your local machine. If you're a Windows user, please make sure that you use Git Bash. This way, you can use the same commands as the ones Linux and OS X users use.

We're going to create a project called super-git.

How to do it…

To create our first Git project, perform the following steps:

1. Open your terminal and browse to the folder where you want to create your project.
2. Create a folder named super-git and create the following directory inside it:

   $ mkdir super-git
   $ cd super-git
   

3. To make this folder a Git project, we need to tell Git to monitor this folder. We do this by typing the following command:

   $ git init
   

   The following screenshot shows you the output for this command:

   
4. Let's create one file to add to the repository. We name it README.md:

   $ echo "HELLO README" > README.md	
   

5. Now, we will add this new file to Git. This is also known as staging the files:

   $ git...