find out status of git files git status commit new changes git commit -m 'message here'Add a file that is not being tracked yet: git add [new file] To delete files: (if you just delete stuff on the filesystem, it gets tracked for deletion automatically - nice) To find out where on github the origin lives git remote show origin To push your commits up to github: git push origin To ignore certain files (like DS_Store) etc: Add a file called ".gitignore" and write space separated files to it like: "jc5-v01/.DS_Store [another_file_here] [etc]" To force getting newest stuff from github repo: git reset --hard HEAD git clean -f git pull |