How-To-Git-Started/README.md

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# 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>
```