README.md

Git Kata: Basic Commits

This kata will introduce you to the git add and git commit commands.

This is a very introductory kata. if you have used git status, git log --oneline --graph, git add and git commit extensively you should probably skip it.

You can look at the bottom of this file, if you have not yet done basic git configuration.

Setup:

1. Run source setup.sh (or .\setup.ps1 in PowerShell)

The task

1. Use git status to see which branch you are on.
2. What does git log look like?
3. Create a file
4. What does the output from git status look like now?
5. add the file to the staging area
6. How does git status look now?
7. commit the file to the repository
8. How does git status look now?
9. Change the content of the file you created earlier
10. What does git status look like now?
11. add the file change
12. What does git status look like now?
13. Change the file again
14. Make a commit
15. What does the status look like now? The log?
16. Add and commit the newest change

Useful commands

• git add
• git commit
• git commit -m "My commit message"
• git log
• git log -n 5
• git log --oneline
• git log --oneline --graph
• touch filename to create a file (or sc filename '' in PowerShell)
• echo content > file to overwrite file with content (or sc filename 'content' in PowerShell)
• echo content >> file to append file with content (or ac filename 'content' in PowerShell)

Git Initial Configuration

1. git config --global user.name "John Doe"
2. git config --global user.email "johndoe@example.com

For the vim scared:

• git config --global core.editor nano

For the windows peeps:

• git config --global core.editor notepad

Other editor options:

• git config --global core.editor "atom --wait"
• git config --global core.editor "code --wait"
• git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst"