Git Tutorial for Beginners: Learn Git in 1 Hour

Git: The essential tool for modern development. 🔧 This quick explainer shows why it's a must-have skill.
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💡 Why Git?
- Track code changes over time.
- Collaborate with other developers easily.
- Revert to older versions if something breaks.
- Essential for software & DevOps engineers.
📖 TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:35 What is Git?
0:03:07 Using Git
0:06:11 Installing Git
0:07:38 Configuring Git
0:12:43 Getting Help
0:13:35 Cheat Sheet
0:14:05 Taking Snapshots
0:14:38 Initializing a Repository
0:17:10 Git Workflow
0:21:46 Staging Files
0:25:24 Committing Changes
0:27:37 Committing Best Practices
0:30:21 Skipping the Staging Area
0:31:46 Removing Files
0:33:48 Renaming or Moving Files
0:36:06 Ignoring Files
0:42:41 Short Status
0:45:33 Viewing the Staged and Unstaged Changes
0:50:33 Visual Diff Tools
0:55:27 Viewing the History
0:57:39 Viewing a Commit
1:01:37 Unstaging Files
1:04:28 Discarding Local Changes
1:06:17 Restoring a File to an Earlier Version
#git #devops #coding #softwaredevelopment

[@programmingwithmosh]

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[@shubhambangad1011]

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Mosh has taught me a lot of things, you deserve credits! Good luck Mosh, keep growing!

[@noormohammedshikalgar]

Hey mosh hope you are doing great, i want to thank you for making such courses. Thanks a lot.

[@earthfirewaterair4822]

For mac user: to add vs code to your path: - open vs code - shift + command + p - search for (shell command: install 'code' command in PATH ) Then you just configure it to git according to our teacher, Mosh

[@bidioli]

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[@sukhmanbaath4875]

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[@Amitsarker]

It works. Thank you

[@AydaTalaei]

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Mosh I just love your tutorials, they are easy to understand and very beautifully designed. Thank you for this course.

[@Abhinav-Bhat]

Yes!!

[@subijoyacharya3189]

Mosh your voice is so soft and soothing. You are like the everyone favourite drawing teacher meets and intelligent harvard professor.

[@scottwilson1620]

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[@bimal.subedi]

Hit one like for all the hard works of Mosh just for us ♥️

[@amitgg]

For that I have hit like on the video itself

[@chubbyBunny94]

A like for this comment or this video?

[@AJKivela369]

28 thousand + likes later. & Still deserves more

[@mathiaschaves7604]

good job, you have remembered me successfully!

[@md.shafiuzzamanrajib6625]

It will really help beginners to get started with Git. Thank you very much Mosh. I have shared it on LinkedIn and tagged you. Keep on creating such amazing content for the programmers. Take care and stay blessed.

[@angelinagokhale3993]

Thank you Mosh for this easy-to-comprehend tutorial! It was very helpful.

[@evert-arias]

Great video Mosh. I've been using git for years, and I've learned a couple of new things from this video. Thanks for such great content.

[@Imtiaz27]

Very grateful to you for making such simple and amazing tutorials

[@Themojii]

This was a great course. Thanks Mosh. Can you please do a similar tutorial for data analysis and machine learning application in AWS? There isn't a really good course on that in KZbin.

[@johnwise7931]

Dear Mosh, I'm a beginner programmer, and this video was extremely helpful. Thanks for putting in the hard work to produce this video!

[@rhowie.dearest]

how is it going pal?

[@dovydasbalciunas5002]

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[@mimcris8481]

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[@vinodtiwari1]

Hi Mosh, You are one of great instructor that I have ever seen.the way which you explain is awesome and direct hit to our thought process.

[@lollllloro]

52:17 You evaluated the bash variables LOCAL and REMOTE, which did not exist or were empty, leaving you with the string with two spaces after --diff. I like to mostly use single quotes when I don't need bash to evaluate anything in the string, but you could have escaped the dollar signs with backspaces as well if you want to stick to double quotes.

[@nihar8783]

thank you mosh for completing the git part, please complete the design patterns part 3 as well, that is the only course left over in your series

[@ravilobo7977]

This is an awesome tutorial on Git. I also bought the full course. Mosh has an amazing way of simplifying complex topics. I'm thoroughly enjoying this!

[@mar1oforever732]

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[@sanjeetkumarmanjhip.p6034]

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[@jacktembo]

Hi Mosh, You are the best teacher ever. All your courses are clear, straight to the point. We are just waiting for Django course.

[@ethanlal4517]

Me too. Please make a Django course.

[@avinashchaudhary4231]

yes mosh please upload a django advance course on your codewithmosh.com. I just bought all access subscription two days ago and learning git there you are great teacher.

[@omarsuleiman9109]

Thanks for making all videos easy to be engaged and not dry/boring. I love your energy, color selection, and delivery. keeps me engaged every moment of the video.

[@mykalesalad]

This video was incredibly helpful. Thank you for your great advice and the video graphics were also very simple and informative.

[@bloodycrow01]

Oh man, needed this one so much, going to put that all access suscription to so much use (going through Ultimate Java part 2 now) Thanks Mosh!

[@GuruR97]

As someone completely new to Git and coding in general, thank you for this video. I wish you would've went over branching, merging, forks, and pull requests, but I guess that's what your full tutorial is for. Thank you!

[@abbycraw6093]

Hey! How is it continuing to go for you? I just started as well and it’s a bit intimidating but I’m catching on to HTML pretty quickly. I am utilizing a course through Udemy.

[@daniellister4701]

Im around three quarters of the way through the git ultimate course and I have to say its sooooo good. Pacey but thorough. The time spent explaining different merge types is fantastic. The most useful part, for me was creating new branches on remote/origin correctly, something I constantly struggled with. I already have Senior Engineers at work asking me about "git log --oneline --all --graph". Amazing as always Mosh, if you keep releasing content like this we might just make it!

[@dovydasbalciunas5002]

are you a senior yet?

[@daniellister4701]

I'm waiting for a vacancy to open up at work, and I'll be applying in 2024

[@konnli1]

Thank God for you. You make these tutorials so simple and straight forward. Love them

[@andreseduardocardozolandae5893]

Great video Mosh! Very entertaining and informative. Thanks a lot!

[@encryptedninja]

I purchased your GIT course and was really curious about how much more value can you put in it after watching this one hour free tutorial. Man you're amazing, your courses are easy to understand and packed with good stuff! The free ones here on your channel are really good, the paid ones are amazing! Thanks for the great content!

[@EmekaUgwu-fx7lt]

hello, which one did you buy because I noticed he has the one for one time subscription and monthly pay.

[@kpieceemmry3387]

Have you bought his Python?

[@mmdnaderi7183]

Hey Mosh , thank you for all the great work you do for your students. I was wondering if you're planning to make a course especially about architectural pattern and deliver it in java language ?. Or any thought about android programming with java and android studio ?. Thanks . Love from Iran ❤

[@DiaryOfMuhib]

This is the best beginner friendly tutorial no doubt. The presentation is also enjoyable. Thank you.

[@alanblanchet6814]

An amazing video !!! I really learned a lot from you ! An amazingly well structured video, easy to follow and very pedagogy-friendly !

[@jacktembo]

World class Course. This guy is really good at teaching coding stuff. Look at the English he speaks. so amazing. He speaks good english in all his courses

[@StraightCoding]

The best git basic tutorial I have watched still. Someone know what software he uses for animating his videos?

[@engmohamedabdirazak]

hey mosh just thank you, i was very confused about git and git hub, watched a lot of tutorials never understood a tiny of it. i came straight to youtube and searched you. thank you

[@natalieacevedo4575]

Best KZbin channel to learn programming by far!!..Thanks Mosh!..greetings from Colombia 😘

[@akshaymaity5064]

Hi Mosh, You are one of great teacher that I have ever seen.

[@diManjenje88]

This is still one of the most comprehensive Git course… thank you so much Mosh!

[@AndySickler]

Mosh you are amazing! I was looking for a tutorial just like this. Thank you very much!

[@T1Te12Tes123Test1234]

Enrolled for full course. Very helpful. Thank you. Each video starts and ends on topic. No seconds wasted for welcome and thank talk. Great tutorial.

[@adityashashank9682]

bro can you text me ? we can share the course ill pay you half fee

[@tusharhalder4480]

The best thing I like about your videos is QUALITY and SIMPLICITY. THANK YOU MOSH🙂

[@majidpahore9052]

Sir i can't express my deepest gratitude for the courses and your wholeheartedness, willingness to help .love your courses.keet it up Sir

[@Brandamonium]

This is so easy to follow and helpful. Thank you!

[@calvinellis6493]

Great video! Thanks for the information on git and all the great helpful shortcuts for the mac command line!

[@robertmullinslives]

This is AWESOME! I left the IT industry some ten years ago, your courses are really helping me get back up to date.

[@alexyershov7580]

Very strong presentation. Checked the curriculum for the full course, and I think it may be well worth paying for the remaining chapters. The info can be found elsewhere, of course, but never presented with the same clarity and confidence.

[@iheanyionwubiko9748]

The clarity! Makes it easy to grasp the concept and understand!!!

[@coffeeaffairs307]

Thank you for this tutorial! It made git seem much easier to work with! I will probably end up subscribing to your course collection

[@user-bw8gj9no8h]

Your lectures are always helpful for studying programming , thanks!

[@Tech-jc5gy]

9:33 vscode 10:26 default editor 20:13 deleting file from staging_area (with git add) 22:14 creating, adding files 26:06 comitting

[@colombuzz8550]

Thanks!! This is one of the best. The pace and timeline was just perfect in the video. The content quality is super exceptionally good. I am glad that i found this video. Thanks a ton MOSH!!!

[@philinnc]

Mosh: this is a great tutorial for beginners (and some of us who skipped around on the way to "intermediate"). Going to sign up for your full course. My only regret: got sidetracked setting up Powerline on my machines, because that's something very few systems people could resist (well, some developers seem to have greater self-discipline).

[@billiemage890]

I can surely say that is most understandable git tutorial for beginners. thanks mosh!

[@blessinghirwa]

When Mosh is explaining it's as if he comes in your mind and organize everything for you and explain it to you and you end up thinking as if you're the one who created git lol. Mosh is the best teacher for programmers.

[@bullymaguire3867]

@@programmingwithmosh Why did you make the penis symbol?😂

[@viren3399]

@@programmingwithmosh mosh do you have any academy or training center other than online platform

[@SanilJadhav711]

@@bullymaguire3867 bruh, it's a sideways heart lol

[@diManjenje88]

Yeah!

[@marvinkorir]

Mosh has beautiful animation on his videos 🔥

[@pavankumar4909]

@@programmingwithmosh can u do on angular course new version please angulat11

[@blazorax]

Mate, you made it so simple to understand. Just bloody awesome. Thank you so much.

[@anvlog7483]

Love the work of mosh inspirational instructor and learnt a lot because of his awesome way of teaching.

[@mobinal5429]

Swear of God I smiled after watching the video title. I was waiting for the Git tutorial by one and only Mosh! #WELOVEYOU🇧🇩

[@mobinal5429]

@@programmingwithmosh Keep making videos and let us smile 😀 Allah will help you.

[@bengalichic9333]

@@mobinal5429hey your bengali?! Let's connect! I am also learning

[@mobinal5429]

@@bengalichic9333 Yeah I am... 🇧🇩

[@snehashispanda6979]

@@mobinal5429 ye bhi theek hai

[@mother_hacker]

Dear Mosh, it is one of the best and most enhanced tutorials I have ever seen, overall! Not only in git. Your graphics are so smooth and awesome. What tools did you use, if not a secret? I would like to create something like that for an Embedded C tutorial. At least, just listing the tools would suffice and I would google them to learn and create as awesome tutorials as yours.

[@sairam3351]

do you know the theme he used for "zsh with git"..?

[@mother_hacker]

@@sairam3351Sorry, brother, not aware for now. I will inform you as I get it.

[@lawrencekin02]

Great tutorial... I was looking for a more practical and clear tutorial.. yours is very engaging and easy to understand... Great job Mosh.

[@michaelvieira2113]

You were meant to be a teacher. Amazing tutorial and thank you!

[@smolahloe]

Mosh, your tutorials are so easy to follow. I will continue supporting you. How do you get your terminal to look the way it does and which font do you use?

[@adidisimon]

Would like to know this as well

[@challahadley7196]

Hey, Mosh. I love your tutorials. They are so clean, detailed and beyond helpful. I do have just one suggestion. As a beginner I was supper confused about adding visual studios code to path. Could you put how to do so. When I finally found how to do it, it was very simple and took a short time. Other than that this was perfection. **for the people that got confused around **9:30**** go to visual studios code, Hit Cmd+Shift+p to pop open the command palette. Then start typing Shell Command ... until the Shell Command: Install "code" command in shell PATH option appears. Select this and Code will add code to your path.

[@melssf7852]

Thank you!!!

[@KhasoaDiaries]

kindly explain further ive pressed cmd+shift+p but the command pallete didnt pop up

[@nikkyle5979]

Are you able to advise on the non Mac instructions

[@challahadley7196]

@@nikkyle5979 visual studio code should be the same on both Windows and Mac. For Windows use the Control button instead of Command!

[@MandolinSashaank]

I actually wanted this because I've been working on git lately and I love the 60fps part of this video also. Thanks once again Mosh!

[@MandolinSashaank]

@@programmingwithmosh Sure Mosh!

[@davidjohn3628]

I love this tutorial so much, the animation has kept me engaged till the end of the video. Now I'm a bit curious, what tool did you use to make this beautiful animations?

[@Helpmecry]

There are 2 types of viewers : 1. They really needed this video 2. They wanted the flutter course BTW, good job if your taking advantage of the pandemic by learning how to code. #stayathome

[@carloscontreras4655]

Correction. There are 3 kind of viewers. Those that you already mentioned, and the ones, like myself, that are still waiting for the "Design Patterns Course" to be finished... AFTER ALMOST A YEAR!!!

[@nic0217]

15:52, if "open .git" does not work on Windows try using the "start" command instead

[@sudhanshugorwadkar3839]

Thanks, it works

[@garimabisht1112]

thank you

[@yugeshdev3643]

Thank you for this excellent introduction!

[@pontusbergstrom6520]

This was a great and wellmade introduction, thank you for making this!

[@dongnguyen7497]

How to get your colorful command promt?

[@ganapathipranesh8506]

This is amazing! Flutter soon please!!

[@sandeepsaini1923]

Please Flutter course also 🙏

[@sihamfarhan6438]

i've never seen such a brief tutorials like yours . i loved it . much thanks :) dear mosh

[@realitynightmare]

The way you make this so easy to understand is a skill in itself. Thank you. The video at uni was very ordinary, never have I said OH so many times

[@chandrashekharkotekar8453]

Hello Mosh, Thanks for the great video, it helped me a lot to refresh some of the things. One unrelated question if I may - which zsh theme did you used in this video?

[@alansharedmenesescarbajal1921]

I think it's called agnoster

[@robinkratschmayr6429]

Hey Mosh, great Video.Thank you. One Question, how do you display the file path in this graphical way in your terminal?

[@JeffersonRaimon1]

powerline and powerlevel9k

[@blessinghirwa]

Now I see why you were off for a long time. You were preparing a great content for us , thanks a lot Mosh.

[@ekkomanhighlights388]

This is so high quality thank you for uploading this

[@NitinVarmaManthena]

What software's do you for screen annotation, magnification and cursor/cursor click highlighting?

[@NIKETSHUKLA]

Can we have a video on customising terminal so that it looks like yours.

[@alephanull1953]

He is using ZSH with ohymyzsh

[@viniciusmolinagarcia6603]

@@alephanull1953 do you what theme is that? The most similar I found was PowerLevel10k, but it is not the same.

[@mjcortez2460]

I actually found it frustrating because I don't have the same interface -- terminal doesn't show the current branch

[@alephanull1953]

@@viniciusmolinagarcia6603 agnoster, sorry for the late reply

[@starstuff11]

@@viniciusmolinagarcia6603 PowerLevel10kis the best imo

[@TheGuyCalledCarl]

Beautifully explained. Thanks Mosh. You rock dude!

[@medsmati2063]

Thanks a lot, I love the way you explain things.

[@priyagupta2914]

Hii Mosh,just want to tell you tha u missed the part of how to connect git to your github account and push ,pull or clone files. Please make a video on that too ,will be a great help😊.

[@rizwantariq8513]

Search The Net Ninja Git Tutorials

[@shahryar.s]

It's part of his full git course. He's not gonna give everything away for free 🤣

[@hookenz]

Hey Mosh. Great tutorial. May I ask what theme you are using for your git shell? I tried all the ones from posh git but they don't look as useful as what you're using.

[@patrickjreid]

Yes please I want your theme as well!

[@kchmielewski]

@@patrickjreid The theme is called agnoster.

[@kennytieshisshoes]

This is the first tutorial I have ever bought from a KZbin video and what a steal!

[@vutranminh5057]

Thank you Mosh! Your lessons are really easy to understand

[@michellewehr5704]

How can I get my terminal to look like that?

[@bigceeenterprise.340]

We missed you Mosh, thanks for this. And if you could do a course on machine learning. Thanks in advance.

[@jaideep5613]

Excellent Work, after seeing this as a beginner I feel more confident on Git, Thank you...

[@Alex-bc3xe]

You know for spending your time doing all this content for free is just I don t know wordless. I do learned a lot and just want to thank you for helping us understand things that we have interest in. God bless you.

[@user-tm9ey8gm9c]

I am unable to get the cheat sheet through email and when i go for download options it's showing connection not safe. What's the problem with it ?

[@OfficialLegend]

Just download it. It's showing not safe coz its not recognised by windows or something. Most random downloads will be like that unless they're popular official company ones. If you're not going around downloading from sources you can't verify or trust then it's nothing to worry about. If you're a gamer, like me, who may download a lot of mods or pirated games you'll see it very often etc

[@thestarinthesky_]

@15:50 use command 'explorer .git' if you are on Windows OS. Command 'open' doesn't work on Windows!

[@metsumilitia]

Thanks a lot!!!!!

[@evrenbayram7306]

I was looking for this, thanks!

[@ziaulhasanhamim3931]

thank you, sir. I have been waiting for this from a long time

[@youmna4045]

after spending hours searching on the internet , finally I find this wonderful video that make everything clear . thank you very much .

[@vinodvishwakarma1821]

Please make the tutorial of how to install posh-git on windows

[@crabbyfish3691]

just use git bash

[@frankjonestba]

Install? I'm sure there's plenty of posh gits in your area... They seem to not like England 😉

[@Fullwisher]

Hi Mosh, just want to know will there be Dart/Flutter tutorial coming up in the future?

[@saitaruns]

An intermediate Flutter tutorial would be great as flutter itself is so self explanatory.

[@Meissharat]

Yes same here

[@TheJuniorDeveloper]

@@programmingwithmosh hi mosh i already subscribed for your course in codewithmosh but this course is not included ..why?

[@mg-ht9ir]

@@programmingwithmosh plz make it next month 🙃

[@studycare562]

@@TheJuniorDeveloper same problem

[@krajkumar6]

@Mosh Thank you for creating this tutorial. It explains the concept of Git even for managers like me who dont need a great level of detail. Thanks

[@kwh6769]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you!

[@guycohen4403]

15:50 on windows it "start .git"

[@oliviarichey7136]

you angel

[@sagarikadas1196]

Hey thank you so much.I always look for ur courses cause they seems very easy for understanding & I do always recommend to my friends and colleagues .

[@rohitmahajan2111]

Really appreciate the animation part of video. Also this is one of the best tutorial on Git.