Summary

By this point, you’ve gained a solid grasp on using Git for local version control: You know how to initialize a repository, make changes, stage and commit those changes, inspect the history of your work, and undo things. That’s enough to manage small projects confidently.

Now that you’ve got a foundation, it’s worth experimenting on your own, to become more comfortable with the workflow. Consider creating a basic project structure for your next project or completing the current project if you have been following along. Here’s a sample layout you can try:

minimal-project/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── .gitignore
├── datasets/
│   └── dataset.csv
├── src/
│   ├── import-data.<lang>
│   ├── analyze-data.<lang>
│   └── visualize-data.<lang>
├── tests/
│   └── test_valid-data.<lang>
└── doc/
	└── getting-started.<lang>

Create a project structure and try:

• Adding (placeholder) files – the .<lang> extension is just a stand-in for whatever file extension fits the language or languages you’re working with.
• Making small edits and committing them.
• Looking into the history to see how Git records everything.

In the next module, we’ll cover working with remote repositories.