If you are new to git, the very first thing you should do is get a GUI. There are plenty of good free ones. Github has one, or Sourcetree is another popular cho

If you are new to git, the very first thing you should do is get a GUI. There are plenty of good free ones. Github has one, or Sourcetree is another popular choice. You should also learn the command line, too, but it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you are doing, and a GUI makes it easier for beginners to get used to the whole paradigm first. I have been using git for years now, and I use the CLI for lots of little one-off things, but I use the GUI for making individual commits and merges.