2. Creating a project

Goals

• Learn how to create a Git repository from scratch.

01 Create a “Hello, World!” page

Get started in an empty directory (for example, repositories, if you downloaded the file from the previous step) and add an empty subdirectory named work, then create a hello.html file in it with the following contents.

Run

mkdir work
cd work
touch hello.html

File: hello.html

Hello, World!

02 Create a repository

So you have a directory that contains one file. Run git init in order to create a Git repo from that directory.

Run

git init

Result

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/alex/githowto/repositories/work/.git/

03 Add the page to the repository

Now let's add the “Hello, World” page to the repository.

Run

git add hello.html
git commit -m "Initial Commit"

You will see:

Result

$ git add hello.html
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
[main (root-commit) 5836970] Initial commit
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 hello.html