10 Warnings For New GitHuber

Actually, more than 10, maybe.

0. I use github to push some commits to git.

• Git is a tool, GitHub is a server providing services related to git.
• Note the case. The word GitHub has two uppercase letters, G, and H.

1. My GitHub Pages reported 404.

• Wait for 10 minutes. It needs about 10 minutes for GitHub to do something(What thing?) about the domain(?) when you are creating the GitHub Pages for the first time.
• Check your email. Some error messages will be sent to your email. Solve that according to the error messages, such as unverified e-mail.

2. I want to get updates from fork base.

• You can see a sentence "This branch is ? commit(s) before..." in a blue box on the top of the file list in your repo page, with a "Pull Request" in the right. Use it, create a pull request from the fork source(which is called upstream) to your repo.

3. I can't push to the remote.

• Is it report this?

To .../remote/
 ! [rejected]		master -> master (non-fast forward)
error: failed to push some refs to '.../remote/'

• After solved this, you should use git pull before continuing your work, every time when you change your working position.
• But now, you should solve it first. You can:
  • git push -f to force push.
  • or git pull
  • or equally, git fetch then git merge.

4. I can't do ??thing on Tortoise Git/SourceTree/GitHub for Windows etc.

• You should learn command line git(Git Bash) first, to understand what you are doing, what you should do, and, what the GUI is doing.