The Basic Shit

If you’re starting to track an existing project in Git, you need to go to the project’s directory and type

$ git init

If you want to start version-controlling existing files (as opposed to an empty directory), you should probably begin tracking those files and do an initial commit. You can accomplish that with a few git add commands that specify the files you want to track, followed by a commit:

$ git add *.c
$ git add README
$ git commit -m 'initial project version'