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The first thing we're going to
do is create a directory for our

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project. You can call this
directory anything and put it

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anywhere on your machine, it
doesn't matter. I'm currently in

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the projects directory. So let's
create a directory called moon,

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and then go into this directory.
So let's imagine this is our

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project directory. and here we
can have 10s, or hundreds of

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files.

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The first time we want to add
this file to a git repository,

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we have

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to initialize a new empty
repository. So we type Git in

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it, look at this message,
initialized, empty Git

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repository in and here's the
full path. So we have the moon

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directory. And inside this
directory, we have a

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subdirectory called dot Git.
And, by default, this

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subdirectory is hidden because
you're not supposed to touch it.

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So if we type ls to list all the
files and directories here, we

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don't see anything. But if you
type ls dash A, which is short

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for all, we can see the Git sub
directory If you're on Mac, you

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can open this with Finder. And
if you're on Windows, you can

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open it with Windows Explorer or
File Explorer. I'm not sure why

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it's called these days. So let's
open .git take a look.

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So here's our Git directory or
Git repository. This is where

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Git stores information about our
project history. So we have

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directories like branches,
hooks, info, objects, and

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references. Now someone using
Git, you don't really need to

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understand this structure. This
is purely implementation detail.

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It's how Git stores information.
It's none of our business.

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That's why this directory is
hidden so you don't touch it. If

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you corrupt or remove this
directory, you're gonna lose

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your project history. Let me
show you. So back in the

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terminal, look at this green
marker. It says Git that means

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we have a git repository in this
directory. Now if you want to

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have a pretty colorful terminal
window like this on mac you need

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to install zelis H or z shell
and on Windows, you need to

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install poshkit but don't worry
about it. Now, these tools are

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completely optional to use. Git
is just for making things

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pretty. So here we have a git
repository. Now, if I remove the

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Git subdirectory, we're going to
lose this repository. So RM dash

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RF .Git, look, the green mar
er is gone. We don't have a git

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repository here anymore. So don
t touch this directory. Now once

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again, let's initialize a Git
repository. Beautiful. So now

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that we have a repository. Next
we're going to talk about the

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basic Git workflow.