4.5 Basic commands

There are many commands that you could learn in Git, but these are the basics, and will be sufficient for pretty much everything you’ll need to do at the moment.

• commit: this standings for committing a change to your file in Git. Think of it as saving a document, but instead of saving the whole document as-is, Git saves just the changes since the last version. This makes it very efficient, especially when it comes to backing up your work. Key points:
  • commit often. By making and saving small changes, your code versions becomes more readable in case you need to go back and find out exactly what and where it went wrong.
  • Always write helpful messages - keep them succinct, but make sure they describe what the change you made was.
• pull: this commands copies the version of the code from your remote to your local machine. Use this when you want to get the most up-to-date version of your code to work on (assuming your local version isn’t the most up-to-date)
• push: the opposite of pull. If your local version is the most up-to-date version, push your version to the remote.