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I just started using Git and I want to know if this is the right way of using it. I started a Rails app with:
rails newapp Then I did:
cd newapp git init git add . git commit -a So is it ‘right’ to init my git inside my working directory?
Yes. You can place a git repository anywhere – including the invisible .git directory created by another git repository. I have a friend who has git track all his system config files in case he makes a mistake.
When working on a project, you want to init your repository in the root directory of the project.
To elaborate, each ‘working copy’ of a Git repository is itself a Git repository. If you have a remote copy on a server, that is also a repository. You don’t ‘check out’ from there – rather, you ‘push’ your changes and they are merged. If working on a purely personal project, the remote repository is often unnecessary. If you do want to host remotely, Github is a good, free, public choice.