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Bash and Git - Introduction

Introduction

In this section, you'll learn about Bash command line and Git. 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.

Bash and the command line

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 every mac and many other unix based systems.

Navigating directories

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.

Git

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 world for collaboration. Git is the technology underlying the GitHub platform, a cloud service provider, of which there are many.

Git commands

In this section, you'll take a look at several Git commands including git add, git commit, git push, git merge, git branch, git checkout, git status, git stash, and git log.

Summary

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!