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# Git & GitHub tutorial
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## Resources to learn Git
1. [Git Handbook](https://guides.github.com/introduction/git-handbook/) Git, GitHub, DVCS, oh my! Learn all the lingo and the basics of Git.
2. [Learn Git branching](https://learngitbranching.js.org/) Try Git commands right from your web browser. Featuring some of your soon-to-be favorites: branch, add, commit, merge, revert, cherry-pick, rebase!
3. [Cheat Sheet](https://training.github.com/) Keep these handy! Reference sheets covering Git commands, features, SVN migrations, and bash. Available in a multiple languages.
4. [Markdown Cheatsheet](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet) to write clean README

## Basic Setup 
1. For installation, [download](https://git-scm.com/) git for your respective platfrom.
2. Configure your username with `git config --global user.name "[name]"`
3. Configure your email with `git config --global user.email "[email address]"`

## Basic Git commands

| Command | Description |
| ---------  | --------- |
| `git init` | Turn an existing directory into a git repository |
| `git clone` | Clone (download) a repository that already exists on GitHub, including all of the files, branches, and commits|
| `git add` | Snapshots the file in preparation for versioning |
| `git commit` | Records file snapshots permanently in version history |
| `git status` | shows the status of changes as untracked, modified, or staged |
| `git branch` | shows the branches being worked on locally |
| `git checkout` | Switches to the specified branch and updates the working directory |
| `git merge` | Combines the specified branch’s history into the current branch. This is usually done in pull requests, but is an important Git operation.|
| `git pull` | Updates your current local working branch with all new commits from the corresponding remote branch on GitHub. git pull is a combination of git fetch and git merge |
| `git push` | Uploads all local branch commits to GitHub |
| `git log` | Lists version history for the current branch |

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