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Before you continue to the next lesson, I'd like to encourage you to

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take a minute to set up a Git workspace that will work well for you.

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If you take the time to configure a few things about Git,

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it can be much easier and more pleasant to use.

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My configuration includes this custom prompt,

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which shows my user name in purple and what directory I'm in in blue.

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Having it more colorful like this just makes it stand out more from

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the other commands.

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Now, if I cd into a directory with a Git repository, I also have this in green,

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which shows which commit I currently have checked out.

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Right now, it's just showing the commit ID, but in lesson two,

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you'll see how to give commits names and this will become more useful.

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This prompt will also show a star if I've made any changes since committing.

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So if I were to open up game.js and add another line, then you see a star here,

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which indicates that I have changes that haven't been committed.

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I'm just going to undo that, so now the star is gone.

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I also have tab completion set up so

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I can type just the first few characters of a Git command, for example, git l

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and press Tab, and the rest of the command will be completed automatically.

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There are also some situations where Git will open up a text editor.

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For example, as you'll see in the next lesson, when you make a submit,

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Git opens an editor for you to write a commit message.

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You want to just set this editor to whatever you prefer to use.