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How To: Access Solutions

NOTE: Solution branches will always exist on the repo you forked from at the end of each sprint. You will need to do this process for EVERY repo.

There are several ways you can view the solution branch to a repo. We provide two options currently.

• View solution on Github
• View solution on Local Machine

Solution on Github

To view the solution on github you must do the following steps:

1. Go to the original repo on github (The one you forked from). Repo will look like hackreactor/cohortname-reponame. Example: hackreactor/rfc2202-toy-problems
2. On the repo page you will see a dropdown menu labeled master. This is the default branch for viewing. To view the solution branch select solution.

3. You can now navigate the solution code in the code panel.

Solution on Local Machine

The process to get the solution code on your local machine is more involved and will require to connect your local code to the repo you forked from via an upstream url.

Steps:

1. Set upstream url.

For us to make a connection to the original repo we will need to add a new url by the name of upstream.

In Terminal:

git remote add upstream [url]

NOTE: replace [url] with the url of the repo you forked from. I.E. hackreactor/rfc2202-toy-problems not dalton/rfc2202-toy-problems

2. Fetch upstream solution branch.

Now we want to get the solution branch that was released on the upstream repo.

In Terminal:

git fetch upstream solution

3. Checkout to solution branch.

In Terminal:

git checkout solution

4. Pull down updates while in the solution branch (Whenever new solutions are available).

In Terminal:

git pull upstream solution

You will now be able to navigate the solution code on your local machine.