Git ensures that code progress is never lost

By EngineAI Team | Published on January 15, 2026
Git ensures that code progress is never lost
This lesson will teach you how to use Git to store your entire coding progress so you never lose your work again. It will cover eight useful git commands as well as how to write your first git commit.

Step-by-step:

Open a coding project in your IDE and launch a terminal instance in that folder after installing git from git-scm.com and checking with git --version in the terminal.

After setting up git tracking using git init, use git add. to take a snapshot of every file (or git add [filename]).[extension] for certain files

Use git commit -m 'first commit!' to save your snapshot, and use git log to see every commit.

Use git checkout -b feature-[name] to establish a branch for new features, then use git merge to merge the modifications to the main branch. [Name of branch]

Give your coding assistance git rules: 
(1) Use git checkout -b feature-[name] to create a feature branch. 
(2) Wait for approval, 
(3) Ask before merging, 
(4) Commit after every sensible change, and 
(5) Never commit straight to main.

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