Overview

The specific learning objectives of this workshop

• Learn key terms:
  • Git is a version control software that tracks file changes.
  • Repository (repo) is a folder that contains files tracked by git.
  • GitHub online platform for syncing git repos and project management.
  • GitHub Desktop local software to do git via a graphical user interface.
  • modify-add-commit-push-pull a basic git workflow that can get you 80% of the benefits of version control.
• Git actions we will learn to do via GitHub Desktop
  • init Create a repo
  • clone Make a clone/copy of an existing remote repo to local machine
  • status list of files changes relative previous version.
  • log entire history
  • diff show changes in a file compared to previous version.
  • add stage selected changes for next commit
  • commit save selected changes as a version
  • pull sync local repo with remote repo
  • push push local repo changes to remote repo
• GitHub features
  • Issues a GitHub feature for organizing commits.