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Commitmas 2: A Month of Merriment

Challenge 4 - Git Basics - Clone, Add, Commit and Push!

By Anthony Elizondo, recording available.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. The Challenge
   • Step 1
   • Step 2
   • Step 3
   • Step 4
3. Resources

Overview

To full participate in #Commitmas, you will need to have a working environment to work with repositores and associated files. For this challenge all you'll need is a git client. In this challenge we'll cover the most basic Git commands: Clone, Add, Commit and Push.

The Challenge

Step 1

Understand the various "places": workspace, staging, local repository, remote respository.

Step 2

Cover the commands that move from state to state.

• "Add" will move things to staging. That is, tell Git that this is something we want to track.
• A "Commit" is telling Git that we have some changes we want to save to our local repository.
• "Push" places our commits in the remote repository.
• A "Clone" (or a "Pull") brings a remote repository into your local workspace.

Step 3

Demo: Clone a repo.

Step 4

Demo: Add a file, commit it, and push it.

Resources

git state diagram