Understanding Git

introducing the basics of git

Any Git project will consist of three sections: The Git directory, the working tree, and the staging area.

the Git directory is where we have the whole history of all files and changes, and that is the most important feature of a Version Control System, to keep track of all our previous snapshots of our project, so in case we have a bug or any malfunction we can easily roll back to a safe version of our project, in Git those snapshots are called ‘commits’. The working tree contains the current state of your project…