Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The git add command is used by developers to specify which files should be included in the next ...

I'm fairly new to git and most of my interaction with it has been via the IntelliJ Idea IDE. But sometimes I use a command line. In one directory I did "git init", "git add files", and "git commit".

Need to create a new Git repository? Then you'll need to learn how to use the git init command, because that's the only way to create a new Git repo. A Git repository is the heart and soul of Git.