Creating Local Repositories with Git and Adding/Checking in FIles

The student is asked to create a new directory in the /home/cloud_user location called web-api. This can be accomplished from the /home/cloud_user directory when logged in as cloud_user with the mkdir command and the name of the directory to create.

Initializing the new repository in the 'web-api' directory can be accomplished by executing the following commands:

cd /home/cloud_user/web-api  
git init

Verification of the creation of the repository can be seen with the command:

ls -al

Which will then show a directory called .git has been created.

When asked to create the repository README file, you can accomplish that by executing the following command in the /home/cloud_user/web-api directory:

echo "Web-API v1" > README.md

Finally, once the README.md file is created in the /home/cloud_user/web-api/ directory, you will need to add and commit the file to the repository. This can be done via the following commands:

git add README.md  
git commit -m "Some Comment Here for the Commit" 

You can then verify that everything is checked in and nothing else is left to do with the following command and output as follows:

git status

RESPONSE IN TERMINAL:
On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean