How to Manage a Git Repository in Linux Command Line

Hello friends, In this section we would learn how to manage Git repository using command line, and further how to handle the repository with various commands. I am writing this article to ease what you would find in other sources.

I don't want to bore you with an introduction to Git, i assume that you already know what Git is and what its used for. Its a very useful tool for programmers and developers

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Steps to Create a Git Repository

Create an empty repository in your GitHub account. You can leave readme and license which can be added later.

Suppose you have a project folder DEMO in your linux PC, Open the command line inside the folder DEMO and follow the below commands.

Initialise your local folder as Git repo

git init -b main

Add the files in your new local repository

git add .

Commit the files 

git commit -m "Initial Commit"

Copy the repo URL

It would be something like this https://github.com/user/demo.git

Set the Git repo

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/demo.git

Verifies the Git repo

git remote -v

Push local repo to Git

git push origin master

Set remote repo to local repo

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

Current Branch Info

git branch

List all branches in repo

git branch -a

Switch to another repo

git checkout branch

Conclusion

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