# Exercises

### Exercise 1 - Choosing a Commit Message:

Which of the following commit messages would be most appropriate for the last commit made to git.txt?

1. “Changes”
2. “Added line ‘Torvalds said "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'.""
3. “how git was named--citation from Torvalds”

### Exercise 2 - Committing to Git

Which command(s) below would save the changes of myfile.txt to my local Git repository?

1. `git commit -m "my recent changes"`
2. ```
   git init myfile.txt
   git commit -m "my recent changes"
   ```
3. ```
   git add myfile.txt
   git commit -m "my recent changes"
   ```
4. ```
   git commit -m myfile.txt "my recent changes"
   ```

### Exercise 3 - Committing Multiple Files <a href="#firstheading" id="firstheading"></a>

The staging area can hold changes from any number of files that you want to commit as a single snapshot.

1. Add some text to git.txt noting your decision to consider use git to help your work
2. Create a new file I\_love\_git.txt with your initial thoughts about git
3. Add changes from both files to the staging area, and commit those changes.

### Exercise 4

bio Repository

* Create a new Git repository on your computer called bio.
* Write a two-line biography for yourself in a file called me.txt, commit your changes
* Modify one line, add a third line
* Display the differences between its updated state and its original state