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I'm new to programming and I'm having trouble understanding git init command. For example, when I type git init on my terminal I get a return like this:

Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/JohnDoe/Documents/.git/

What is this exactly? Am I creating a new folder for git projects? Am I doing nothing? Or am I turning my entire Documents directory into a repository?

Pankwood
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You created a local repository. You can type git status and you should see '(home)' to verify you have a local repository.

One of the things to understand about git is that you can have a local repository and a remote repository. The next step would be to add files to your local repository. You can use the command git add -all to add all the files in your directory.

Pankwood
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JOlivarez
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I hope this helps you git it.

Transform the current directory into a Git repository. This adds a .git subdirectory to the current directory and makes it possible to start recording revisions of the project.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/setting-up-a-repository/git-init

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