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Where do I run git commands?
All you have to do is load Command Prompt (Load the Start menu, then click “Run”, type cmd and hit enter), then you can use Git commands as normal.
What are the git commands you use?
Let’s jump in and look at each of them in detail.
- Git Init. The git init command is usually the first command you’d run in any new project that is not already a Git repository (also commonly called repo).
- Git Clone.
- Git Branch.
- Git Checkout.
- Git Add.
- Git Commit.
- Git Push.
- Git Pull.
What is a git working directory?
As stated in the Git Documentation: The working directory is a single checkout of one version of the project. This essentially means if you checkout a branch (e.g. master) and are sat on a particular commit (e.g. HEAD), your working directory is the “umbrella” term for all your files and folders.
Is it possible to use Git from the command line?
While GitLab has a powerful user interface, if you want to use Git itself, you will have to do so from the command line. If you want to start using Git and GitLab together, make sure that you have created and/or signed into an account on GitLab.
What does it mean to push to the remote in Git?
This is referred to as pushing to the remote, as this is achieved by the command git push. When the remote repository changes, your local copy is behind. You can update your local copy with the new changes in the remote repository. This is referred to as pulling from the remote, as this is achieved by the command git pull.
How to invoke Git in a batch file?
invoke git in your batch file using the .exe extension explicitly to avoid the git.cmd batch file altogether. For this to work, you might need to make sure that you have your path and other environment variables set the way git.exe expects (that seems to be what git.cmd does in msysgit): git.exe checkout %2 rem etc…
How to invoke Git from a C # function?
For example “target_branch=”dev”; git checkout $target_branch” (i.e. assigning and using variables exactly like that), will not work in powershell. So again, the question of how to invoke git from c# is not really answered.