Objectives
Understand and utilize the fundamentals of Git.
Prerequisites
- Git installed on your machine (https://git-scm.com/download/)
- Visual Studio Code installed on your machine (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
Steps
Step 1: Create An Empty Repository
Go to Visual Studio Code.
Select Terminal / press Ctrl + Shift + `
At the terminal, cd to the destination folder OR mkdir *folder name* to make a new directory / folder.
Use the following command: –
git init
– Initializes the git repository
NOTE: Only use this command in directories that do not contain the .git folder.
Step 2: Pushing a New Project to Gitlab
On your VSC’s terminal, cd to your project directory.
Enter the following command to add the entire project folder into a commit.
git add .
git status
– Displays the state of the working directory and the staging area.
git commit -m ‘My First Commit’
– Saves your changes to your local repository.
git push http://your-project-url.git master
– Pushes the local repository content to a specified remote repository.
NOTE: You can specified to which branch the content will be pushed to.
If it succeeded, the project will be stored in your gitlab project repository.
Step 3: Pulling a Project From Gitlab
On your VSC’s terminal, cd to your project directory.
To retrieve the remote repository content to your local repo, you can do so with the following commands: –
git pull http://your-project-url.git
OR
git clone http://your-project-url.git
If it succeeded, the latest version of the project will be stored in your local repository.