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- Fork the repository via the fork button at the top left of the repository page
- Click the code button making sure that you're using your own personal forked link.
- Head back to your own terminal and navigate to the folder where you'd like to save this repository on your local machine
- Use the
git clonecommand, followed by the personal link that was created with your fork like this:git clone https://github.com/my_github_username/personal_link
If you followed all these steps correctly, you should now have your own personal version of this repository associated with your own personal GitHub account.
When you have your own personal repository set up, follow this sequence in order to make, stage and save changes to your repository using GitHub commands:
- Make a change within your repository. (Something as small as a comment is sufficient to create a change)
- Then make GitHub aware of your change by running the command
git add -A. This will stage all the changes you've made in your repository. - Make sure that GitHub is aware of your change by running the
git statuscommand. If your changes were added successfully by GitHub, you should a log of the changes you made in your console. - Once you've confirmed that GitHub is aware of your staged changes, use the command
git commit -mfollowed by a descriptive commit message in order to save your changes. - Now that your changes have been saved, you can move them to the main branch of your repository and make them official. In order to do this used the command
git push origin main. This will make the version of your repository saved on GitHub.com identical to the version on your local machine, including your new changes. - If there are changes to the repository which have been pushed to main, but don't exist on your local machine yet, you can pull them down to your local machine by running the command
git pull origin mainor more simplygit pull.
That's all! This is all it takes to use GitHub to save progress on your projects!
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