Git usage examples

In my experience, most of the time when we work with Git, we will likely be using the command line and the various options. The graphical tools are useful when we need to trace back changes, look at logs, and compare commit differences, but we rarely use it for the normal branching and commits. We can look at Git's command-line option by using the help option:

(venv) $ git --help
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p | --paginate | --no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]

We will create a repository and create a file inside the repository:

(venv) $ mkdir TestRepo-1
(venv) $ cd TestRepo-1/
(venv) $ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/echou/Mastering_Python_Networking_third_edition...