Detailed explanation of Git tutorial to create a warehouse

Git Create Warehouse

In this chapter we will introduce how to create a Git warehouse.

You can use an existing directory as a Git repository.

git init

Git uses the git init command to initialize a Git warehouse. Many Git commands need to be run in the Git warehouse, so git init uses Git the first command.

After executing the git init command, the Git repository will generate a .git directory, which contains all metadata of the resources, and other project directories remain unchanged (unlike SVN A .svn directory will be generated in each subdirectory, and Git only generates a .git directory in the root directory of the warehouse).

How to use

Use the current directory as the Git repository, we just need to initialize it.

git init

After this command is executed, a .git directory will be generated in the current directory.

Use the directory we specified as the Git repository.

git init newrepo

After initialization, a directory named .git will appear in the newrepo directory. All data and resources required by Git are stored in this directory.

If there are several files in the current directory that you want to put into version control, you need to use the git add command to tell Git to start tracking these files, and then submit:

$ git add *.c
$ git add README
$ git commit -m 'Initialize project version'

The above command will submit the directory ending with .c and the README file to the warehouse.

git clone

We use git clone to copy the project from the existing Git repository (similar to svn checkout).

The command format for cloning a repository is:

git clone

If we need to clone to a specified directory, we can use the following command format:

git clone

Parameter description:

repo: Git warehouse.
directory: local directory.

For example, to clone the Ruby language Git code repository Grit, you can use the following command:

$ git clone git://github.com/schacon/grit.git

After executing this command, a directory named grit will be created in the current directory, which contains a .git directory, used to save all downloaded version records.
If you want to define the name of the new project directory yourself, you can specify the new name at the end of the above command:

$ git clone git://github.com/schacon/grit.git mygrit