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You have now been introduced to the fundamental Git workflow. You learned a lot! Let’s take a moment to generalize:

  • Git is the industry-standard version control system for web developers
  • Use Git commands to help keep track of changes made to a project:
    • git init creates a new Git repository
    • git status inspects the contents of the working directory and staging area
    • git add adds files from the working directory to the staging area
    • git diff shows the difference between the working directory and the staging area
    • git commit permanently stores file changes from the staging area in the repository
    • git log shows a list of all previous commits

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