GitHub isn't just a Microsoft property, it's the biggest code-sharing platform on the planet. At some point you might well find yourself wanting or needing to get familiar with it. But ...

And that’s your introduction to the .gitconfig file. If you’ve ever wanted to get very specific about how Git is configured on your machine, you know have such power at your fingertips.

There's a lot you can do with Git, but besides using it to clone and handle remote version changes, you'll likely want to push some of these files to a remote repository such as on GitHub or GitLab.

The git commit command takes all the new files in the staging area and commits them to the local repository. You use the -m option to add a message; in this case the reason for the commit was given.

Open your repo on GitHub.com and refresh to see the new file. Note: If you’re starting from scratch, create a new repo in GitHub Desktop, move your project files into it, then commit and push.

Note that the .zip file does not come with the .git directory in it (at least from BitBucket -- I don't know how github or gitlab behave in this respect) so there's no actual repo behind it; just ...

Add files to the Git index Before performing a commit, add the files to Git's tracking system -- also known as the Git staging index -- with the git add --all command. $ git add --all Perform a git ...