Creating a Git Project Git is a version control system that keeps track of the files in a project. In order to use git, we start by identifying a folder as a git repository. we do it by running init command in the folder. Before running the git command go to your project folder and create two files called file1.txt and file2.txt and add some sample text to it and save the file. Now open up the git command line in the project folder and type the following command. An easy way to is by right clicking anywhere inside your project folder and click git bash here. $ git init Checking Status Now we created a git repository. Now we can check the status of our repository by typing git status in the git terminal. $ git status You can see there are two files in red which called as untracked files. This is because we still didn't add any file to our git repository. Adding files to Git repository To add files to your git repository by simply typing git add file1.t