Using Git Example

Create new Bare Repository

These steps will create a new bare repository called learningGit in ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/. Create the containing directory Go to the correct directory Create a new bare repository Move into the new repository Look at the contents of the bare repository mkdir -p ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/ cd ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/ git init --bare --shared learningGit cd learningGit ls

Create Working Repositories

For this example, we are going to create 2 working repositories.

This is so you can see how changes don't affect the other repositories unless pushes & pulls are done.

Create a Working Repository These steps will create a new working repository called learningGit in ~/code/learnGit/ that is a clone of ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/learningGit. Move to the appropriate directory Clone the initial repository Move into the working directory Look at the contents (Note: learningGit has not yet had any files added to it) cd ~/code/learnGit git clone ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/learningGit cd learningGit ls -a

Create a Second Working Repository These steps will create a second working repository called learningGit2 in ~/code/learnGit/ that is a clone of ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/learningGit. Move to the appropriate directory Clone the initial repository Move into the working directory Look at the contents (Note: learningGit has not yet had any files added to it) cd ~/code/learnGit git clone ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/learningGit learningGit2 cd learningGit2 ls -a

Add the First Set of Files to the Repository

There are multiple steps for adding the files:

1. Creating a repository with a working directory
2. Creating the files
3. Staging the files
4. Committing the files
5. Pushing the files to the bare repository.

Create a Working Repository These steps will create a new working repository called learningGit in ~/code/learnGit/ that is a clone of ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/. Move to the appropriate directory Clone the initial repository Move into the working directory Look at the contents (Note: in this example, learningGit has not yet had any files added to it) cd ~/code/learnGit git clone ~/code/learnGit/bareRepo/learningGit cd learningGit ls -a
Create the New Files These steps create README.txt and README1.txt in ~/code/learnGit/. Create README.txt Create README1.txt Look at the git status to see 2 untracked files. echo This repo is for Learning Git. > README.txt echo Another file in the repository > README1.txt git status Note: the files are not yet stored in the repository.
Stage the files This step stages the addition of README.txt and README1.txt Stage the files Look at the git status to see 2 staged files. git add . git status Note: the files are staged, but not yet stored in the repository.
Commit the Files This step stores README.txt and README1.txt in the local repository. Commit the files Look at the git status to see no uncommitted changes. git commit -m "Add the first files" git status Note: the files are stored in the local repository, but are not yet in the bare repository.
Push the files to the bare repository This step pushes the files to the bare repository. Push the files without specifying the remote or branch (fails) Push the files specifying the remote and the branch (succeeds) git push git push origin master