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

*** 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

git config --global credential.helper store
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

Saving changes

unstage by using

use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage

Track remote branch

git checkout --track origin/<branch>

Delete remote branch

git push <remote_name> --delete <branch_name>
git remote prune <remote_name>

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