Git

First time Install Setup

(download and install git)[https://git-scm.com/downloads]

In terminal set the the globals

git config --global user.name "fistralpro"  
git config --global user.email "fistralpro@example.com"
git config --global core.autocrlf input

we use input as autocrlf as we don't care about windows crlf - we work in wsl2 and linux -> any windows tools will need to respect that

In terminal
git init my-project-name

Working on a Repo

get the code (assume default branch is main)

git clone git@github.com:repo/project.git
cd project

or, update current code

cd leetcode-solutions
git checkout main
git pull

create a feature branch and push it back for visibility (example branch feature/description)

git branch feature/description
git push origin feature/description

do some code and commit your changes locally (we'll add all new files with .)

git add .
git commit -m "my description of work done"

push your changes to the remote

git push origin feature/description

On successful testing they will be merged to main and then main tagged. The branch will then be deleted. It is recommended you then pull down that change and delete your local branch.
see which branches have been deleted

git fetch -p

now lets delete our feature/description branch that is still local

git branch -d feature/description

Cheatsheet

Show branches (q to quit)

//remote
git branch -r 
//local (no actual need for -l)
git branch 
//all
git branch -a
// details (use any flags - here we use remote)
git show-branch -r

Switch to branch

git pull
git checkout -b {local name} origin/{remote name}
git checkout -b chapter6begin origin/chapter6begin