Git for Authors

To begin a new repository, create a directory where you want your files to live. We have been using ~/books/ppw in our examples. Then make that the default directory in a command-line session.

rob@lava:~/books/ppw$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rob/books/ppw/.git/

Naturally, there will be no commits in your repository.

rob@lava:~/books/ppw$ git show-branch
No revs to be shown.

But once you do make a commit, there will be a master branch and the root commit will get special identification as such. That’s it, you are ready to go.