01-Basics

📘 Git Basics (Your First Real Workflow)

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🎯 Goal of This Section

By the end of this section, you will:

• Create repositories
• Track changes
• Make commits confidently
• Understand Git workflow
• Read Git history

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🧠 What You Already Know

From Mental Models:

• Git stores snapshots
• Branches are pointers
• HEAD is your position
• Staging area controls commits
• Merge vs rebase thinking
• Reflog = safety net

👉 Now we apply it in practice.

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🔄 The Core Workflow

Working Directory → Staging Area → Repository

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📚 Topics in This Section

Follow in order:

1. What is Git
2. Why version control matters
3. Git vs GitHub
4. Install Git
5. First-time setup
6. git init
7. git status
8. git add
9. git commit
10. git log
11. git diff
12. .gitignore

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🧪 Practice Lab

👉 Don’t skip:

practice-lab.md

This is where learning becomes real.

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⚠️ Common Beginner Mistakes

• Skipping staging area
• Writing bad commit messages
• Not checking git status
• Forgetting to commit often

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🧠 How to Learn This Section

For each topic:

1. Read concept
2. Run commands
3. Break something
4. Fix it
5. Repeat

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🧯 Reminder

You are safe because:

👉 You understand reflog 👉 You understand snapshots

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➡️ Start Learning

👉 Go to: 01-what-is-git.md