Common Git workflows
Git is a powerful tool, but it can be quite confusing. There are a lot of commands to remember, and resolving conflicts is just a complicated concept in general. In this exercise, you'll learn the most common and easiest to use workflow for Git within VS Code.
- Modify both of the meta tag descriptions in the "index.html" file 
- Stage both files 
- Commit both files 
- Push changes to Github 
- Open the "index.html" file 

- Highlight "I LOVE LAMP" on line 7 and press Cmd/Ctrl + D to add a cursor to the second instance on the line below. 

- Change the value to "I love lamp" 

- Open the Source Control Explorer view (Ctrl + Shift + G) 
- Click the "+" button next to the "index.html" file to stage it 

- Add a message to the "Message" box and press Cmd/Ctrl + Enter 

- Undo the commit by pressing the ellipsis in the top right corner and select "Undo Last Commit" 

- Change the commit message to "Better description" 
- Press Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to commit 
- Use the button the bottom status bar to push changes to your repo 

- Open the Settings file (Cmd/Ctrl + ,) 
- Add the following line so that VS Code can automatically tell you how many commits you are ahead of or behind the repo. 
"git.autofetch": trueLast updated
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