Terms to Learn – Level 1

Commit

A commit is a version/snapshot of your code created in your local repo. Every commit has a unique ID associated that allows you to keep record of what changes were made when and by who.

diff

A diff is the comparison of two input data sets highlighting the changes between them.

git

Git is a program that tracks changes made to files. Once installed, Git can be initialized on a project to create a Git repository

GitHub Desktop

Github Desktop is an application that allows you to manage your Github projects on your local machine.

Github Pages

Github pages is a way to host your website directly from your GitHub repository. We can use this method to quickly host websites because we don’t need to setup and maintain our own servers.

GitHub website

Github.com is a site that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. We use github.com to store, manage, and host our projects.

localhost

The default name describing the local computer address

Pull Request (PR)

Pull requests let you tell others about changes you’ve pushed to a branch in a repository on GitHub. Once a pull request is opened, you can discuss and review the potential changes with collaborators and add follow-up commits before your changes are merged into the base branch.

Repository

Also referred to as a repo A git repository is the file location where you are storing all the files related to your project.

Staging

Staging is a step before the commit process in git. That is, a commit in git is performed in two steps: staging and pushing the commit.

Working Directory

Alternatively referred to as the current directory or current working directory (CWD) The directory or folder in which you are currently working.