Next Steps
Over the course of this glorious book, you have learned about:
- Installing Git at the command line, within Visual Studio, and GitHub Desktop
- How to create a remote repository on GitHub
- How to clone a repository to your local repository using the command line, Visual Studio, or GitHub Desktop
- How to pull changes down to the local repository
- How to push changes up to the remote repository (origin)
- Best practices on the frequency of committing
- How to write effective messages when committing
- What the work area is
- What the stash is
- What the index/staging area is
- What the local repository is
- What the remote repository is
- How to stage and commit
- How to commit without staging
- What branches are and how to create them
- How to push a new branch
- What the HEAD pointer is
- How to examine your commits with Log
- How to push a commit to the server
- How to manage your commits...