Editing Git (section)

== Creating a new Project ==

 $ tar xzf project.tar.gz
 $ cd project
 $ git init

Git will reply

Initialized empty Git repository in .git/

You've now initialized the working directory--you may notice a new directory created, named ".git".

Next, tell git to take a snapshot of the contents of all files under the current directory (note the .), with git-add:

 $ git add .

This snapshot is now stored in a temporary staging area which git calls the "index". You can permanently store the contents of the index in the repository with git-commit:

 $ git commit