git-basics

Prerequisites:

• Git should be installed in the system
• If not take a look here: https://git-scm.com/downloads
• Terminal :P

To get started

• Fork the repo: https://github.com/govindgoel/git-basics/fork

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/{your-github-username}/git-basics.git

• Navigate to the cloned repo: cd git-basics

• Create a new branch: git checkout -b {yourName}

• Now you can add a new file with name yourName-exploring-git.md and write something in it.

• It's time to push your changes:

  • First see what you have added/changed by doing: git status
  • To add changes to staging do: git add .
  • To commit changes do: git commit -m "yourName-learning-git" [in quotes you provide the commit message basically]
  • To push changes do: git push origin {branchName} [it will be your name that you used to create a branch]
  • If it asks to add upstream then do that and push again otherwise it's done.

• To create a pull request:

  • Go to the repo in your Github account and click on contribute
  • You should see something like below

• Click on create pull request

• It's done 🎉

Key Takeaways:

• What is Git
• Why we need Git
• Git basic commands
• What is a commit
• How to add & push changes to a GitHub Repo
• How to raise a pull request

If you are interested to learn & explore more do checkout this: https://learngitbranching.js.org/