Difference between Git & Git Hub Flashcards

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Git and what does it do ?

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.Is a version control software
.Typically is used as a command line tool and it runs locally on your machine
.Tracks code and versions history
.Allows you to work on different versions/branches of a code
.Help to synchronise different version of the same code base (local base, remote code base etc.)

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Git

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.Is a version control software
.Typically is used as a command line tool and run
locally on your machine
.Tracks code and versions history
.Allows you to work on different versions/branches of a code
.Help to synchronise different version of the same code base (local base, remote code base etc.)

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What is Git Hub and what does it do ?

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.it is a web application that host remote Git
repositories.
.Owned by Microsoft.
.It is deeply intergrated with Git
.Provides extra functionality on top of Git, on a nice
UI to use.
.Mainly used used to log teams of 2 or more people (reasons is when there is a remote repository anyone can access this any where in the world)

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Where does Git store information ?

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Each of your git projects has two parts
1: The files and the directories that you create and edit directly, and the extra information that Git records about the projects History.
The combination of these two things is called a
REPOSITORY.

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Where does git store all its extra information in a directory called?
and where is it located ?

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it stores its extra information in a directory called
.git
and its located in the root directory of the repository.
NOTE
Git expects this information to be laid at a very
precise way, so you should never edit or delete
anything in .git

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what does the command (git status do?)

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.This command is frequently used to check the status of a repository

–which will display a list of the files that have been modified since the last time changes were saved–

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