git-lesson

Simple repo for teaching git basics NOTE: anything in <> is a placeholder. for example <directory> means there will be the name or a directory (or folder) there but I don't know which one.

Topics

• What is git? Why use it?

• How to ...

  • Make basic commands in the terminal (ls, cd <directory>, cd.., mkdir <directory>)

  • Check if git is already installed on your sytem git --version

    • install if necessary

  • Pause to make an account on github.com, and tell me so I can invite you as a collaborator to this repo. Accept my invitation.

  • Clone a repo git clone <repo url>

  • Pull from a repo git pull

  • See what branch you're on git branch

  • Make a feature branch git checkout -b <branch name>

  • Change branches git checkout <branch name>

  • Change comething. See the files you've changed: git status

  • Add a file to staging area git add <filename>

  • Commit your changes on your branch git commit -am"<commit message>"

  • Push to the repo (it will probably fail, you will need to set up your authentication in one of these 3 ways) git push origin

    • Creating a personal access token if necessary
      • to save token, after logging in wither username and token, do: git config --global credential.helper store
    • Generate SSH key if necessary
    • Caching your GitHub credentials in Git if necessary

  • Make a merge request (We will do this online at github.com)