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Posted by Tammi Caprio
Tammi Caprio
11,262 Points

How would you go about utilizing Git while working on files outside of terminal in a text editor like Coda 2 or Sublime?

The Git basics course goes into using nano to edit files, but this is clearly not the simplest or most efficient way as it doesn't have the features of a text editor.

1 Answer

Andrew Chappell
Andrew Chappell
12,782 Points

First thing you would do is navigate to the folder you are working in your computers terminal. For example it might look like this:

cd ~/your-directory

If you haven't done so already you would need to initialise this folder as a git repository.

git init

Then you just work on your files in sublime text as normal. Maybe you have been working on the header of your site you might finish doing that and that would be a good time to commit your changes. So you would run.

git add .

this adds it to the staging environment. Then you would commit it.

git commit -m "Finished working on the header"

There's more to it than that but that's the basic idea.

Tammi Caprio
Tammi Caprio
11,262 Points

Thank you, Andrew! This is helpful.