GitHub Help

Help to using github

Intial steps

Neccessary to contribute to the Zitationsgraph project on GitHub.

1. Create a free GitHub account.
2. Follow instructions at GitHub help to set up Git on your local machine, esprecially using shh keys.
3. Follow the instruction to "Fork a Repo" at GitHub help to create your local copy of the Zitationsgraph remote repository. Basically running the $ git clone git@github.com:username/Zitationsgraph.git at your terminal.

NOTE: There is the TortoiseGit GUI tool for Windows. You would probably need to install Putty (for ssh keys) and the Git MINGGW environment separately to use it.

Commit and Push changes

Everytime you changed something at your local repo commit these changes providing some info what the commit is all about: $ git commit -m 'commit message'. If you have created new files add them to version controll running git add FILENAME. Once you finished some sort of subtask, or are done for now, you will have to *push these changes to the remote repository: $ git push origin master

Using branches

Merging

Request pull