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The basic Git workflow

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The basic Git workflow

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- Git offers a lot of different features, so there's a lot of flexibility in how to manage your projects. Your workflow and the features you may use will likely depend on factors such as whether you're working alone, or with a team, or the scope of the project. So there is no one standard process for how to use Git, but at its core, using Git is mostly about creating a series of commits. So there is a basic workflow that every Git user needs to understand, how to create a repository and how to create a commit. Each step requires running a specific Git command. If you are using a GUI, the workflow remains the same. You'll just be using a graphical interface to carry out these actions. We'll go through specific Git commands and how to use a GUI later on in this course. For now, let's talk about what the overall flow looks like. Step one, create a repository to hold your project files and initialize Git to start tracking your files. Step two, make your changes. This can be any type of…

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