Guide: Git Crash Course

How to git work done without learning it

Essential steps to contributing work to a project on github, using common language (git language in italics).

assumptions

• You need to make some changes to an existing project.
• You do not want to download things, and are using this website: github.com
• You do not need to know the nuance and philosophy behind git workflow.

To complete git actions, find a button with the git wording. This guide follows similar steps to this post, which has pictures if you're having trouble.

Disclaimer and purpose: To give you the LEAST you need to know in order to work on a git project (repository) already started.

0. nerd asks you to git

someone, probably a nerd, has asked you to work on a project (repository, repo) hosted on github.

1. make a copy

fork
make a copy (fork) of the project

2. start a task

branch
give a name to the task you're starting.

3. edit something

pick the file you need to work on and find the edit button. go to town.

4. save it

commit

save what you did. git will require you to describe (comment) what you did. put something short, sweet, and clear as you can, but don't sweat it.

5. repeat

repeat steps 3 and 4 until you think you're done. *if you want some next level skills, the idea is that you should do super specific step 3's and 4's often with good descriptions. but don't let a nerd tell you how to work. but do own it if you end up getting lost and can't find your way home.

6. send it back

pull request
this will also ask you to give an overall description of the work you did.