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Initialize And Ignore

Part of the Version Control section of Coddy's Terminal journey — lesson 24 of 58.

The first job is to turn the folder into a Git repo and set things up so build artifacts stay out of version control.

You will run git init, configure your local user identity (so commits in the next lesson have an author), and write a .gitignore that hides build.log.

After this lesson, git status --short should show the source files and the new .gitignore, but never build.log.

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Challenge

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Initialize the repository on the main branch. Configure local user as Cookbook Dev with email dev@coddy.tech. Create a .gitignore containing the single line *.log.

Then print git status --short. The expected untracked entries are listed in alphabetical order.

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