Initializing git repository

Command for initializing a new empty git repository is:

$ git init

This command will create a new subdirectory .git inside the current directory that you've created for your project. This subdirectory is important for the git and it is where git stores all important objects and all its references. You can list all the directories and files inside .git directory using ls -la command and see what is in there, later on in the book meaning of some of the files that are present in .git directory will be explained.

➜  git-basics git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/nemanjavasic/Documents/git-basics/.git/

➜  git-basics git:(master) ls -la .git
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   9 nemanjavasic  staff  288 Jun 14 13:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 nemanjavasic  staff   96 Jun 14 13:40 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 nemanjavasic  staff   23 Jun 14 13:40 HEAD
-rw-r--r--   1 nemanjavasic  staff  137 Jun 14 13:40 config
-rw-r--r--   1 nemanjavasic  staff   73 Jun 14 13:40 description
drwxr-xr-x  13 nemanjavasic  staff  416 Jun 14 13:40 hooks
drwxr-xr-x   3 nemanjavasic  staff   96 Jun 14 13:40 info
drwxr-xr-x   4 nemanjavasic  staff  128 Jun 14 13:40 objects
drwxr-xr-x   4 nemanjavasic  staff  128 Jun 14 13:40 refs