Github Tutorial¶
Saving and versioning your programs are an important part of development. At some point you will need to:
- Share your code with others.
- Branch off from your working program to develop new additions.
- Revert to a previous iteration of your software.
- Download someone else's software project.
- Contribute to an open source project.
- Recover your project because you accidentally typed
rm -rf *.
Don't wait until you need to do one of these aforementioned items (especially recovering months of deleted software)! Make a GitHub account and start saving and keeping track of all your work in a logical and efficient way. Since there are so many excellent GitHub tutorials on the web, we'll just list them in a sensible order.
Here's a quick overview of a standard workflow using GitHub: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
Create an Account¶
Installing GitHub¶
Setting Up and Repo Creation¶
https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo/
Creating a repo and editing via the github.com
https://help.github.com/articles/adding-an-existing-project-to-github-using-the-command-line/
Linking a repo to your local directory and adding files to a repo via the command line
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository
Recap of linking your repo, and how to grab someone else's repo and download it to your local machine.
Branching and Tagging¶
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging
Rundown of branch creation, merging, conflicts, deletion
Modifying and Contributing to Other Projects¶
https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
Basic forking (copying a repo with the intent to modify it)
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/GitHub-Contributing-to-a-Project
Advanced forking and contributing
Extra Resources¶
https://training.github.com/kit/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet.pdf Useful command cheat sheet
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 Full length online git book, great in-depth info
