Git: add vs push vs commit

Question

What is the difference between git add, push and commit?

Just a little confused coming from SVN, where \"update\" will \'add\'

Answer 1

add -in git is used to tell git which files we want to commit, it puts files to the staging area

commit- in git is used to save files on to local machine so that if we make any changes or even delete the files we can still recover our committed files

push - if we commit our files on the local machine they are still prone to be lost if our local machine gets lost, gets damaged, etc, to keep our files safe or to share our files usually we want to keep our files on a remote repository like Github. To save on remote repositories we use push

example Staging a file named index.html git add index.html

Committing a file that is staged git commit -m 'name of your commit'

Pushing a file to Github git push origin master