dev/Basic-Git.md

+# Basic Git
+
+If you modify a weapon and someone else adds a spell, nobody wants to deal with merging those two ideas together.  Git puts your changes together for you.
+
+If you have an idea, but you want to show it to someone before committing to it, git lets you make a copy of the project, then give someone your copy and your new ideas.  They can then make changes before putting it into the book.
+
+Git gives you a lot of toys, but beginners will only need a few:
+
+Make a new branch to play with, and name it something (in this example, your username).
+
+```bash
+git switch -c $USER
+```
+
+You can mess around here, making the changes you want.
+But if you don't like your changes, just reset everything:
+
+```bash
+git reset --hard HEAD
+```
+
+Tell git you've made changes:
+
+```bash
+git add -A
+```
+
+Explain what you did in a few words, e.g. `add rule for half-swording`, with a commit message:
+
+```bash
+git commit
+```
+
+Push your changes to gitlab, so everyone sees them.
+
+```bash
+git push origin $USER
+```
+Remember you are pushing your own branch, so replace 'new' with whatever name you gave your branch.