foss survey git remote exercise

Using gitbash, PuTTY or similar, ssh into saskia.igm.rit.edu

Change into the hfoss18s directory you created earlier.

Make a new directory called hfoss-scratch

Change into this directory.

Initialize an empty git repo with git init

Using an editor on saskia, or some other means (eg, creating the file on another host and transferring it to saskia via filezilla), create a file in the directory with the same basename as your yaml file, but with the filename extension .txt (eg, mine might be deejoe.txt)

Into this file place a partial list of FOSS programs found on the classroom computers.

Add the file to your git repo, and then commit it to the git repo. Follow your progress using git status and git log as you go.

Add my djaigm/hfoss-scratch repo on the KGCOE GitLab server as a remote for your repo.

git remote add upstream https://kgcoe-git.rit.edu/djaigm/hfoss-scratch

Fetch, and then push to your own branch on the repo, eg:

git push upstream \<deejoe>

(using your own nickname in place of <deejoe>)

Monitor the state of this repo.

Once some of your classmates have pushed their own files to the upstream repo, fetch those branches and use the information within them to expand your list of software packages.

Edit, add, commit, and push again. We will aim eventually to have a more full list of packages to merge into the master branch.