What does it mean to be a Git project?

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Question

This exercise says we’re turning sorcerers-code into a Git project – what does this mean?

Answer

sorcerers-code is an existing directory with some files already in it, so it’s already a project of sorts. But! It’s not yet a Git project – better known as a Git repository, or repo.

When you use git init and initialize a repo, you’re officially making a Git project and can now make use of all the git commands in the world! If you’re not inside of a git repo, you won’t be able to use git commands and the terminal will complain to you about it.

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Git is a version control system. It is on the command line. So when you turn it into a Git project, you are essentially making your project able to be compatible with Git by getting git commands imported to the command line.