# git crash course for kickstart

**Format**
- Type along?
- Do we have exercices?

**Briefly**
- Why use git? What does it do for you?
- Using it yourself vs using with others
- Starting from scratch vs joining an existing project

**Set up git**
- installation
- email and name config
- ssh vs https

**git clone**
- Clone a repository and see we have the files

**git add**
- To save a file into git

**git commit -m "message"**
- save changes permanently

**git log**
- Look at the previous messages
- This is why descriptive messages are imporntant

**git push**
- See the changes in the browser

**Do we cover**
- Going back to a previous state?
- To get a file: git checkout commit_id file_name
- Undoing current changes (git reset --hard, git checkout file)

**Common problems**
- How do I undo?
- To get a specific file from a previous commit:
- git checkout commit_id file_name
- Not committing often enough
- Trying to be too perfect, falling behind
- Forgetting at all
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**IDE integration**
- Your IDE probably has some git integration
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**What you learn next**
- Talk to colleagues
- Keep learning yourself
- Coderefinery

**What if you don't use this?**
- chaos
- you can't reproduce results
- you change something and spend days trying to figure out what broke

**social side**
- networking
- contributing to other projects
- others contribute to your projects
- this is great for your future career