Getting set up in Terminal

Determine present working directory with pwd

pwd

If necessary use cd to change your working directory

cd /Users/Name/Documents/Git Folder

Initialize, Add, Commit and Push

Initialize the local directory as a Git repository as follows:

git init

add the files in local repository. This stages them for commit

git add .

Commit the files that have been staged in the local repository.

git commit -m "First commit (or other comment)"

Commit changed/updated file(s)

Add the changed file, e.g. data.csv, to the staging area

git add data.csv

What does staging a file mean? The file is in a staging area, i.e. set aside, in preparation for a commit.

You can check to see that this has occured by using status

git status

status can also tell you what files have been recently updated even before staging (or so I think).

Commit changes using commit (no suprises there). The comments here should be helpful with version control.

git commit -m "some sort of comment"

Easiest workflow after making a change is to check the status. If changes are present, they can be staged with add. Check to make sure the changes have been staged using status. Changes can then be pushed once staged and commited.

git init
git add .
git status
git commit - m "changes from TODAYS_DATE"
git push

Push repo onto GitHub

Copy-paste your Git repository URL from GitHub

In Terminal, use the following code to add the URL for where the local repository will be pushed

git remote add origin GITHUB_REPOSITORY_URL

Verify the URL

git remote -v

Push changes in local repository to GitHub

git push origin master

Much of this was obtained from Netlify’s tutorial.