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Pro Git book notes - getting started

• Centralized and distributed version controls
• Three states of tracked files
• Set default for initial branch

• Version control has a simple database that kept all the changes to files under revision control

• Local computer

  • Checkout

    • file

  • Version database

    • Version 3
    • Version 2
    • Version 1

Centralized and distributed version controls

• Centralized version control systems

  • Server
  • Clients

• Distributed version control systems

  • Clients mirror the repository

Three states of tracked files

• Modified
• Staged
• Commited

Set default for initial branch

Changing the name from "master" to "main"

  git config --global init.defaultbranch main