Practice using git + GitHub
This project consists of four separate min projects consisting:
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Learning Git
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Creating a repository.
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Configuration of Git.
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Git commands
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
- I learned git from scratch with this website learn git
- Go to GitHub.
- Sign in to GitHub.
- On the right side of the page, click on the green
New repository
button. - Give your repository any name you like and make sure that the repository is public.
- Also make sure that the
Initialize this repository with a README
is NOT checked.
If you are on any linux distro you can use the package management tool that comes with your distribution to install it.
- Setting up your username and email
─$ git config --global user.name "your username"
─$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- Change the default branch for Git using this command
─$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main
- To enable colorful output with git
─$ To enable colorful output with git, type
- To verify that things are working properly, enter these commands and verify whether the output matches your name and email address.
─$ git config --get user.name
─$ git config --get user.email
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repo -> repository
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clone
-> bring a repo down from the internet (remote repository like Github) to your local machine -
add
-> track your files and changes with Git -
commit
-> save your changes into Git -
push
-> push your changes to your remote repo on Github (or another website) -
pull
-> pull changes down from the remote repo to your local machine -
status
-> check to see which files are being tracked or need to be commited -
init
-> use this command inside of your project to turn it into a Git repository and start using Git with that codebase