Learning Github
- Git is a version control system that tracks the changes made to the source code. Allowing teams with multiple members to work on it simultaneously. Github is the web-based hosting service for git repositories. Git has some basic commands and concepts; here are some of them!
- commit: Saves your staged changes to your local repository.
- branch: Allows working with independent lines of development.
- merge: Combines different branches.
- checkout: Traditional versions for switching between branches. The modern version is "switch".
- rebase: Integrates changes from one branch to another.
- HEAD: References the last commit in the currently checked-out branch. It's possible to move it with operators like '^' and '~'.
- reset: Resets the current HEAD to a specific state.
- revert: Undoes the changes made by a specific commit.
- cherry-pick: Selects specific branches to add to the current working branch.
- clone: Creates a copy of an existing repository.
- fetch: Downloads commits, files, and refs from a remote repository.
- pull: Updates the current repository with the latest changes from the remote one.
- push: Updates the remote repository with the latest changes from the local one.
- Issue: A feature mostly used to keep track of tasks, new features, and bugs. It's extremely important in planning.
- Pull request: A request to merge the changes between two branches.
- Project: An interface for organizing and planning the works related to a common goal.
- Label: A feature used for organizing issues.
- Milestone: A feature used to keep track of groups of issues and/or pull requests.
- This is the Fifth Group's repository, where we are laying the groundwork for our project during CMPE352 and CMPE451 in 2024.
- Meeting moderator: Moderates the meetings and takes notes for those meetings.
- Reviewer: Closes the issue with an appropriate comment, edits the labels (removes need review adds completed), and updates the necessary fields (end date) in the related projects.
- Communicator: Ensures communication between our group and the teaching staff.
- More roles will be added as needed while we progress through our project.
- On October 1, 2020, Github officially started to use "main" instead of "master" to migrate away from biased terminology.
- Using learngitbranching.js.org to learn github is highly recommended.
- Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the same creator who created the Linux OS. He also named the system "Git" after himself. While git doesn't have a technical meaning, it's used as a British slang term that means foolish.
- GitHub has a cat with five octopus-like arms as a mascot.
- GitHub has more than 420 million repositories!