Some basics git commands

jms published on 2014-09-29 included in Git

Basic workflow

# setup the project  
git clone github/project.git  
git branch FeatureX  
git co FeatureX

# make some changes  
git status  
git add .

# commit changes  
git commit -m 'commit message'

# push changes to branch  
git push origin branch-name

# next pull request/merge with master on github or command line  

Sometimes you don’t want to track some files(like local env configuration settings)