Init and Your First Commit

Part of the Git course

Imagine you are writing an essay in a text editor, and every time you make a meaningful change, you save a full copy under a new name: essay-v2, essay-v3, essay-final, essay-final-actually. It works, sort of, until you have thirty files and no memory of which one has the paragraph you liked. Git solves this properly.

You talk to Git through the terminal, a window where you type commands as words instead of clicking buttons. If you have never used one, look for a panel in your workspace with a blinking cursor and a line that ends in a $, something like ...