Git and Github Tutorial

A tutorial for beginners and intermediates at Git and Github!

Usage

If you'd like to clone this and use as your own:

1. Click Code and git clone url

Exercises

Start-a-Repo Challenge

1. Create your own local repository
2. Add files and commit it

Push-to-Github Challenge

3. Create a remote repository in GitHub
4. Push your local repository to your remote repository

Branching

5. Create a new branch in your working directory (local repo) and commit new files
6. Push this to remote repository
7. Create and merge the pull request

Friend-Revert Challenge

9. Add your friend as a collaborator
10. Ask them to commit and push something new in a new branch
11. Merge this changes
12. Decide to abandon the whole thing and revert back to the first commit you ever made (use git checkout, add, commit)
13. You can always git checkout back to the previous commit if needed

Contribute-Repo Challenge

14. Contribute to this repo by forking : Forking Article
15. There is a file called participants.txt . Edit that file and add your name
16. Add, commit and push. Remember to pull before you push
17. Create a pull request
18. Congrats!

External Resources

Pro Git Book
Bash Commands
Mosh Programming Tutorial
GitHub article Intermediate Git

Contributions

If you have suggestions / issues:

• Open an issue in this repository or get in contact with us. The issue tab is the 2nd tab after <> Code

OR

• Fork this repo and create a pull request.
• You can check this article on forking: https://www.dataschool.io/how-to-contribute-on-github/

Credits

Some images taken from Pro Git Book. Thanks Keng Son for being my partner and STC Committees for helping out!