Understanding the Git Workflow
To use Git effectively, it’s important to understand the workflow which is broken into three parts:
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Working Directory
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Staging Area (Index)
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HEAD (Repository)
These components work together to track, orgernise, and save changes.
Working Directory
This is the current state of your project, the files and folders you’re actively editing.
Anything you create, modify, or delete here is considered unstaged by Git.
Staging Area
The Staging Area is like a clipboard or checklist of changes you want to include in your next commit, you add files from your working directory to the staging area by using the git add command.
HEAD (Repository)
The HEAD, is the permanent history of commits. Each commit is a snapshot of the files that were staged at the time. Files are added to this area by using the git commit command.