What is Git?

Git is software for tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.

• Git is a software.
• Git is a command-line tool(GitBash).
• Git is installed locally on the system.
• Git is focused on version control and code sharing.
• Git is a version control system to manage source code history.

What Is GitHub?

GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

• GitHub is a service.
• GitHub is a graphical user interface.
• GitHub is hosted on the web.
• GitHub is focused on centralized source code hosting.
• GitHub is a hosting service for Git repositories.

GitHub essentials are:

• Repositories
• Branches
• Commits
• Pull Requests

• Git (the version control software GitHub is built on)

  Repository

  A GitHub repository can be used to store a development project.It can contain folders and any type of files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Documents, Data, Images).

  Branch

  A GitHub branch is used to work with different versions of a repository at the same time. By default a repository has a master/main branch (a production branch).

  Commits

  In GitHub,changes are called commits. Each commit (change) has a description explaining why a change was made.

  Pull Requests

  Also referred to as a merge request – is an event that takes place in software development when a contributor/developer is ready to begin the process of merging new code changes with the main project repository.

Common Git commands used in various situations:

• start a working area
• work on the current change
• examine the history and state
• grow, mark and tweak your common history

• collaborate

  start a working area

  clone - Clone a repository into a new directory

  init - Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one

  work on the current change

  add - Add file contents to the index

  mv - Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink

  restore - Restore working tree files

  rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index

  examine the history and state

  bisect - Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug

  diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc

  grep - Print lines matching a pattern

  log - Show commit logs

  show - Show various types of objects

  status - Show the working tree status

  grow, mark and tweak your common history

  branch - List, create, or delete branches

  commit - Record changes to the repository

  merge - Join two or more development histories together

  rebase - Reapply commits on top of another base tip

  reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state

  switch - Switch branches

  tag - Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG

  collaborate

  fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository

  pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch

  push - Update remote refs along with associated objects

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