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I've got Git for Windows running, I'm not sure if it's supposed to function as a text editor though?
I think I installed it with the Vim editor, but in a Git Bash shell how do I create a file, such as webpage.html?
$ git add webpage.html comes back as
fatal: pathspec 'webpage.html' did not match any files because it tries to track a non-existing file.
I understand I can create a new file on the github.com interface, that's easy enough, I'm wondering if I can create a new file (like echo in cmd) and whether this file will actually be blank (echo in cmd creates non-blank files) and how I can write into that file from the git bash shell?
If not, I'm guessing I should just create a new file in windows explorer? Is that the norm...?
Wow, I was new to all this when I asked the above. No, Git Bash isn't a text editor, it's a Windows version of the git facility on Unix, and only handles the file versioning. git add, git rm, and other git commands just handle how the version control file manager handles the files and folders, and the only things it changes as a result are in a hidden folder named .git. Sorry if this has confused anyone.
I was confused at the time because, as the name suggests, Git Bash has bash shell commands shipped with it, not just git - e.g. ls (list files), mkdir (make new folder), and -- what I was looking for -- touch (make a new file or update timestamp on existing file), and echo (print text to the command line, or direct that text to a file).
I could have made my new file webpage.html with:
touch webpage.html Then written to it with:
echo "<!DOCTYPE html>" > webpage.html Then appended lines to it with:
echo "<html" >> webpage.html echo "<head>" >> webpage.html and so on - but I don't think there's any text editor (according to this list of commands). See this thread for details of setting up a text editor with Git on Windows.
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1) touch command As simple as that, just type the word touch followed by the name of the file you like to give it, and Voila! you have created an empty text file inside of a terminal. You can add the file names of the file you would like to create at once with space in between each filename.
To create a new file, run the "cat" command and then use the redirection operator ">" followed by the name of the file. Now you will be prompted to insert data into this newly created file. Type a line and then press "Ctrl+D" to save the file.
If you are using the Git Bash shell, you can use the following trick:
> webpage.html This is actually the same as:
echo "" > webpage.html Then, you can use git add webpage.html to stage the file.
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