Repository Step 3: A History Worth Reading

On your own machine, make at least five commits to your project, each one a single idea with a message in the imperative. Before every single git add, run git diff and actually read it. Then run git log --oneline and check that the five lines together describe what you did in a way a stranger could follow. If any line is unclear, that is a lesson for the next commit rather than something to fix. Finally, practice the safe undo: stage something, then unstage it with git restore --staged, and confirm your edits survived.