So, you’re interested in learning git, but you don’t know where to start? Here are some simple first steps!

Step 1:

Install git on your local machine

First, install Homebrew. Then, in your terminal, write: brew install git Now you should be good to go!

Step 2:

Make the directory that you want to initialize git in

mkdir myproject

Step 3A:

Initialize git repo on local machine!

First, make sure you step into your directory cd myproject Now you can initialize with the command git init

Step 3B:

Initialize using clone

Another way to set up git repo locally is to clone and existing repo from a remote location. You do this by saying git clone <url>

Congratulations! You’ve initialized git on your local machine!