What happens at git init

Git, Unix cli / March 23, 2021

A subdirectory with the project name is created and a .git folder is placed in the subdirectory. to get .git to show up, you must type “ls -a”

Caroline@CAROL-HP ~/projects
$ git init myGitProject
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/Caroline/projects/myGitProject/.git/

Caroline@CAROL-HP ~/projects
$ cd myGitProject

Caroline@CAROL-HP ~/projects/myGitProject (master)
$ ls

Caroline@CAROL-HP ~/projects/myGitProject (master)
$ ls -a
.  ..  .git

Caroline@CAROL-HP ~/projects/myGitProject (master)
$

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