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03 starting with a fresh project

Starting with a fresh project (git init)

In order to start a fresh git repository, you can use the init command

git init project-name

It will create a folder project-name.

davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  git init project
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davis/projects/learning-git/project/.git/
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  ls         
project
davis@davis-arch  ~/projects/learning-git  cd project 
 master  ls
 master  git status
On branch master

No commits yet

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
 master  ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 davis www-data 4096 Jan 21 20:04 .git
 master 

You can see that a diretory called project is created, it contains the .git hidden directory.