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A Git Workshop

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Getting started with git

Downloading git for your local machine

For linux

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git

For Mac

brew install git

For windows, download git from the following source - https://gitforwindows.org/

to check if git is successfully installed, type git in your terminal and you should see a bunch of functions appear from it

Configuring git

substitute the following with your details of your github account

$ git config --global user.name "Emma Paris"
$ git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"

Basic functions

1. Creating a local repository - go to the directory which you want to make a git repository

$ cd myproject
$ git init

2. Checking tracked and untracked files

$ git status

3. Adding changes to be tracked

Either a file can be added or all files can be added

$ git add <filename>
$ git add .

4. Committing a change

Once the changes are added, the changes can be committed, which means you are sealing them, in order to do so

$ git commit -m "YOUR COMMIT MESSAGE"

5. Pushing the file to your online repository on github.

To do this we set the

git remote add origin <URL OF REPO>
git push origin master

6. Getting changes from the remote

git pull