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• There is an online tutorial for beginners that want to learn git.
• Other video tutorials can be found here.

Key Git Terminology

Repository - A directory that stores all the files, folders of a project.

Master - The primary branch of all repositories.

Commit - The action of storing a new snapshot of the project’s state in the Git history.

Fork - Creates a copy of a repository.

Branch - A version of the repository that diverges from the master of the project.

Push - Updates a remote repository with the commits made to the repository. 

Fetch - Download and copy remote repository files to your workstation.

Pull request - A request to merge your branch with a master branch. The repo maintainers can review and merge the branch into master.

gitignore - A file the specifies files or files types that should be ignored in commits