Git Practice Activity for Lab2

A repo to play with the common git operations in and learn how to get working with markdown

Helpful links

• Cheat sheet - https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet
• Desktop app (optional, very useful for development) https://desktop.github.com/

Steps to complete for the practice activity

• Get social with github. Setup your account
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/elmsln and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/haxcms and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/lrnwebcomponents and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to this repo and star / watch / fork it -- https://github.com/btopro/lab2
• From your copy of the repo, edit the README.md file (this file) and fill out the things below the FILL THIS OUT line
• Use the commit message in order to indicate what you changed
• Then issue a pull request back against this repo
• https://oer.hax.psu.edu/bto108/sites/ist402/labs/git will have the non-messed with directions as we'll screw up this repo to see how version control works during class

FILL THINGS OUT BELOW THIS LINE AND DO IT IN MARKDOWN

Working definition of Git and what it's done for

GitHub is an open-source repository hoster that allows users to host code and collaborate on it within one unified platform

What do you think the top 3 reasons to use GitHub / GitLab are?

1. Version Control
2. Maintain a master copy of the code of a program accessible to anyone
3. Allow your code to be reviewed by users on the internet most likely free of charge

What is a Pull Request?

A Pull request is a proposed code commit to be merged into the codebase of a particular GitHub repo

Links to relevent Github / git tutorials

• Github
• SomeGuide
• SomeOtherGuide

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