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GIT Basic Notes for the Interview PART-1

GIT is the most widely used Version control System by the developers across globe. The main functionality of GIT is tracking changes in file and makes it easy to coordinate the work between multiple people in the project

It maintains a remote repository and the developer can create a local repository in the system, do his changes in the local repository and then push the changes to the remote repository. This makes the development process go smoothly with less hassle and issues.


The first thing is to clone the remote repository on your system using the GIT clone command

git clone username@host:path-to-repository

You can also use

git clone --recursive username@host:path-to-domain-repository 

when you are cloning a project with sub-modules.

Here --recursive parameter will cause sub-modules to be properly initialized and cloned.

After you cloned a repository you can see all the dev files within the project.

Now, to start developing the project you need to create one local branch using the command

git checkout -b your-branch-name

This command will create one local branch with the name "your-branch-name".

you can check you are working on which branch using command

git branch 

 This will show the below branches on your local system

 master
your-branch-name*

here * indicates that currently, you are working in this branch.

You can also check the remote branches by using the command

git branch - a

 Once you have created your local branch and started development you need to add the files which included your changes or a new feature, commit them and push them to the main remote repository.

I will discuss in detail git commit, git push and git pull in my next post.

Here is the link to the second part of this post

GIT Notes for the Interview PART-2



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