Day 8 Task: Basic Git & GitHub for DevOps Engineers.

What is Git?

Git is a version control system used for tracking changes in computer files. It is generally used for source code management in software development.

• Git is used to tracking changes in the source code

• The distributed version control tool is used for source code management

• It allows multiple developers to work together

• It supports non-linear development through its thousands of parallel branches.

  What is Github?

  GitHub is a web-based platform that provides hosting for version control using Git.GitHub is a very popular platform for developers to share and collaborate on projects, and it is also used for hosting open-source projects.

  Features of Git

  • Tracks history

  • Free and open source

  • Supports non-linear development

  • Creates backups

  • Scalable

  • Supports collaboration

  • Branching is easier

  • Distributed development

    Task:

    1.Create a new repository on GitHub and clone it to your local machine

    2.Make some changes to a file in the repository and commit them to the repository using Git

    3.Push the changes back to the repository on GitHub

    create a new repository on git hub named as newday8

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    clone it on local machine using the command

    

    git clone https://github.com/achendel/newday8.git

    Created new python file in local machine named as aa.py

    

    git add: The git add command adds a change in the working directory to the staging area. It tells Git that you want to include updates to a particular file in the next commit.

    ex: git add aa.py

    git commit -m "type msg here": Since we have finished our work, we are ready move from stage to commit for our repo.Adding commits keep track of our progress and changes as we work.

    ex:git commit -m "saved file"

    git push :The git push command is used to upload local repository content to a remote repository

    ex: git push

    

    Changes are reflected in your remote repository

    

    The git pull command is used to fetch and download content from a remote repository and immediately update the local repository to match that content.