Pre Course Git Fu

Terms for learning Git

Repository - a Git project with history of all tracked files, changes, contributors, and other data
Git - Version Control - a framework allowing collaboration and tracking of project history
Clone - copy a repository onto your local machine for editing
Fork - copy another user's repository
History - the past changes to all the files as well as what users contributed to the project and any comments they left
Staging - set up any changes made on your local machine to be committed to the project history
Remote - a copy of the repository, usually off of your local machine, that you can pull changes from (if multiple users (or machines) are working from that copy of the repo) or push changes to (for yourself or other users to then use)
Commit - a chunk of changes grouped together logically and added to the project history as a discrete event that can be tracked in the history and/or used to compare against other users' histories of their own forks of the repository
Push - send any local changes you've made to the repo history into a remote copy of the repo