# Git — reference material

*Placeholder.* This folder will hold a self-paced primer on Git: the tool that lets you save versions of your project, undo changes safely, and try out ideas without losing what already works.

Planned topics (rough sketch — order subject to change):

- What a repository is and why you'd want one
- `git init`, `git status`, `git add`, `git commit` — the daily loop
- Looking at history: `git log`, `git diff`
- Undoing things: `git restore`, `git revert`, and when *not* to use `git reset --hard`
- Branches: trying something without breaking your working version
- Merging and the basics of resolving a conflict
- Ignoring files (`.gitignore`)

## When to dip in

Once your project has more than a handful of files, or once you've lost work to an editor crash. Until then, you can probably get by with "save often."

## Installing

Will be filled in. Short version: most operating systems either have it or make it a one-line install.