Version control system
Tracks and manages changes over time

What does it do? Track changes Compare version TIme travel to old version (or revert) COmbine changes and collaborate

Basics

What is a git repo

Workspace Has its own history Watches changes in a given folder

Commit

Checkpoints Has a message that describes it multi step process

Add the changes that I want to have in the commit

git add

Commit the added changes (staged) into a commit

git commit - It will promt for a commit message using the default editor - Can be changed with git config --global core.editor - Reference in the book - with -m message can be passed directly - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit

log

git log retrieves a list of commits with --oneline output is compacted