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Note: This post is part 1<\/strong> of two-parts Learning to Work with Git & GitHub<\/em><\/strong> post series. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly.<\/p>\n

For self-taught web developers, learning Git<\/a> is not an easy subject to tackle, especially if not-working in team. Web developers who work alone, all on-their-own and may not feel a need to learn Git & use GitHub<\/a>. Because the software is so huge, there is lot to learn, even before getting started to use it. For most beginners, learning to use Git<\/a> & GitHub<\/a> could come with time consuming steep learning curve. My recent interest on ReactJs<\/a> and GatsbyJs<\/a>, learning & getting started using Git has become essential.<\/p>\n

The main objective of this learning series is to understand the very basic of Git<\/a>, its commonly used most basic commands, and getting started using Git<\/a>, by creating a local project and lunch it to GitHub<\/a> server.<\/p>\n

Learning series<\/strong>
\nPart 1<\/strong>: Introduction to Git – The Basics (this post<\/strong>)
\nPart 2: A Collection of Basic Git Commands – A Cheat Sheet<\/a><\/div>\n

The objective this part 1<\/strong> of the series is to get familiar with Git<\/a> and its key features, common Git terms, basic Git commands, and Git workflow from a perspective a front-end web developer.<\/p>\n

What is Git & How it Works?<\/h4>\n
Git vs GitHub<\/h6>\n

Git<\/a> is a distributed version control system (VCS) for tracking code changes in coding (software development) projects. It is the most preferred method of co-ordinating projects among team members. GitHub<\/a> is a open-source development platform to host code repositories to review code & manage projects.<\/p>\n

Tip<\/em>: For a beginner, the terms Git<\/a> & GitHub<\/a> may be confusing. Simply put, Git is the system and GitHub is repository for hosting service.<\/p>\n

Git Basics<\/h6>\n

Git is the most widely used open source distributed version control system (VCS) in software development and used by more than 70% developers<\/a> worldwide. In nutshell, Git sits on the top of file system and allows to manipulate files without changing the master file. It stores references of every changes in files as snapshot of that moment.<\/p>\n

Git documentation<\/a> outlines following key features of Git:<\/p>\n