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teaching: 20 minutes

exercises: 0 minutes

questions:

• How do I record changes in Git?
• How do I check the status of my version control repository?
• How do I record notes about what changes I made and why?

objectives:

• Go through the modify-add-commit cycle for one or more files.
• Explain where information is stored at each stage of that cycle.
• Distinguish between descriptive and non-descriptive commit messages.