Creating directories

Git is a tool that is used to version control a directory of files. To start, we must first create a directory that will contain the files that will be version controlled.

You can call the directory anything you want. For this workshop, we will call the directory versioned_dir. To create this, type into the command window;

mkdir versioned_dir

This will have created a new directory called versioned_dir. We now need to change into this directory. Please do that by typing this into the command window;

cd versioned_dir

Initialising version control

The next step is to tell git that we want to start version controlling the files in this directory. We do that by initialise git using the git init command. Type this into the command window;

git init

You should see something like this printed as output to the screen;

Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ab01234/versioned_dir/.git/

This has told git to initialise a new repository in which versions of files in this directory will be saved. This repository is empty, as we have not yet saved any versions.