git init

• init stands for initialization
• Directory is a folder used for storing multiple files. It may be text or doc
• Repository is a directory where Git has been initialised to start version controlling your files

What to do?

• Create one directory/folder

  mkdir Documents/MyFolder

• Go into that folder

  cd Documents/MyFolder

• Enter the command

  git init

• Hidden folder ‘.git ’ will be created

  ls -la

• You can enter into this folder to see various files created automatically

  cd .git

• You will see files and folders

  branches, config, description, HEAD, hooks, info, objects, refs

• You can see the files inside these folders and then return to MyFolder

  cd ..

• If you retype the git init command in same folder then it will reinitialise the .git repository for version controlling This is how git init works.

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