In this section, you'll learn about git and the bash command line. You've seen a bit of this from our first section in which you took a look at how to clone a github repository. Now, we'll further investigate how to navigate the command line and use more powerful git techniques.
- Have a high-level overview of the command line
- Understand the purpose of git
The command line or shell is the preliminary interface where users can interact with the operating system. Before applications, windows, and graphical user interfaces, all interaction with the computer was facilitated through the command line. Of these command line shells, bash now comes preinstalled in all mac and many other unix based systems.
The preliminary fundamental techniques you'll practice in this section are changing directories using the cd
command, making directories with the mkdir
command, and checking where you are using the print working directory, pwd
, command. In addition, you'll also take a look at how to create and edit files from the command line using the nano
command.
You've previously seen how to fork and clone git repositories from github. Git is a version control system that is used by developers all over the place for collaboration. Git is the technology underlying the github platform, a cloud service provider, of which there are many.
In this section, you'll take a look at a lot of additional git commands including git add
, git commit
, git push
, git merge
, git branch
, git stash
, git checkout
and git log
In this section, you'll take a look at git and bash! Get ready to have the preliminary tools that almost all developers consider to be their foundation!