Git/Github Tutorial

Download Git: http://git-scm.com/downloads

Set up Git: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/

Use cd to navigate to your project’s directory

Copy git-publish a place that is accessible via your path. Run echo $PATH to see a list of all folders in your path. You only need to place the git-publish script in one of them. I like to use /bin (“” means my home directory).

On Windows

You can create a folder called “bin” in your %HOMEPATH% and copy the git-publish script there.

Now restart your bash console (close it and re-open it).

Type git publish to see if it runs. You should get a message like “Error - You do not appear to be on a branch to publish from, please check with 'git branch’”. That’s fine for now.

Our first project

Lets make our first git project. Make a new folder called firstgit and use cd to navigate to it in your bash shell.

Run git init to initialize git in the current directory.

Make a new file, make a new branch, commit the file to the new branch. Go back to master, and the file has disappeared!

Publish a Git Project to GitHub

To publish a folder to github, you have to tell git where you want to publish to. You need to add a remote branch.

Now make your commit and simply run git publish to publish your files to GitHub.

Simple Git Workflow

Work on a branch that’s not master. Add your changed files. Commit some things. Then when you’re happy, publish your branch.

git checkout -b dev # go to branch (**-b** = create one if it doesn’t exist).
#git add . # add all files in the current directory
git add README.md # add README.md to be committed
git commit -m “my commit message” # commit your file state
git publish

Thanks

Thanks for following along!

Here's a list of helpful links to keep learning git:

• Interactive Git Tutorial - A great visualization of what is happening as you work with git

* A note on git publish for the curious

What git publish does is simplify a few common tasks in a typical git workflow. Really git publish is doing the following from your current branch, say dev in this example:

git checkout master # go to master branch
git fetch # get the latest updates from the server
git checkout dev # go back to dev
git rebase master # rebase with master
git checkout master
git merge dev # merge the changes from dev to master
git push # push the current branch to the remote origin

However, git fetch is instead a combination of git remote update -p and git merge --ff-only @{u} written as fetch here for simplicity of understanding. These two commands used together helps keep the commit history clean of “Merge branch ‘master’ of ….”