How-To-Git-Started/README.md

# How to Git started

## Using a GUI
You can use any GUI for git, the ones we use are Fork and Sourcetree  
You can download these at https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ and https://git-fork.com/

For other GUIs check out https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis/


### Learning objectives
- Introduction to VCS
- Create new repository
- Git ignore file
- Staging
- Committing
- Git push
- Git pull request
- Branching
- Merge / Rebase 
- Undoing Commits & Changes
- Tag ?
- Log ?


## Using the terminal

### Getting started
Set up your git info

```shell
*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
```

If you want to save your https credentials run
```shell
git config --global credential.helper store
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
```

## Saving changes

unstage by using
```shell
use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage
```

Track remote branch
```shell
git checkout --track origin/<branch>
```

Delete remote branch
```shell
git push <remote_name> --delete <branch_name>
git remote prune <remote_name>
```