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Revisions and the Cloud

Notes

What is Git?

Git is a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) that stores snapshots (commits). Git has several key components:

• Git allows users to work locally on a computer that may not even be connected to the internet
• It can track every single change made to a file or directory, and can detect corruption or loss of information in transit.

Files in Git are always in one of three states:

1. Modified - changed but not committed
2. committed - snaphots all tracked files in working directory
3. staged - Ready for commit

ACP

ACP or add, commit, push is an order of operations for the git to upload to the Git repository.

• Add or “track” files by using git add file.md or git add *will bring the modified file or files to the staging area
• commit with git commit file.md. this command commits a snapshoit of all modifications to tracked files in repository.
• Push with git push origin main to finalize the changes to the selected repository.
• By using git status, the user can see exactly what files are modified, staged, and ready for commit

Answers

1. A sytem that keeps snapshots of all changes made to the file or project. It allows the user to revisit previous versions of the file or project.
2. Cloning is copying all files from a repository to a local computer.
3. To track and stage files, a user can either enter each file individually with git add file.md or multiple with git add *
4. to take a snapshot of your changed files, you’ll enter git commit file.md for individual files or git commit -a for multiple files.
5. to send files to GitHub, a user will need to use command git push origin main