More Stuff

The basic workflow is everything you need to version control your work in personal repositories. Of course, things get more complex when collaborating with a team or contributing to a project. Workflow strategies (Github flow, Gitflow, feature branch, etc) There is LOTS more to learn about Git!

Here are a few suggestions for the next topics to master:

GitHub Fork

Forking is a GitHub concept. It allows you to create a new copy of a repository, yet maintain a connection so that changes can be exchanged between them via “pull requests” (PR).

• Go to the gitworkshop repository.
• Click the “Fork” button in the upper right.
• Add a new file with your name and profile url.
• Click “New pull request” to send me a message asking to add your edits to the main repository.

git branch

Branching is a Git fundamental that allows you to test out ideas in parallel to your main repository without disrupting the master copy.

git branch newbranch 
git checkout newbranch
git checkout -b new2
git branch --list
git branch -D newbranch

git merge

Once you have branches, you will want to merge them together.

git checkout -b new3
echo "new stuff" > newfile.txt
git add newfile.txt
git commit -m "new stuff"

git checkout master
git merge new3
git branch -D new3

.gitignore

Create a .gitignore file in the repository to tell Git to ignore things.

GUI

There are a variety of GUI apps available for managing and visualizing Git repositories. However, one of the most handy methods is to use a good text editor with Git support built in.

• Atom
• Visual Studio Code

gh-pages

GitHub pages is a quick and easy way to host static web pages. It is enabled from the “Settings” for a repository. There is three options:

• add static HTML files
• use the “Automatic page generator”
• use Jekyll build service

Once published your website will be [username].github.io/[repositoryname]

For example, https://uidaholib.github.io/get-git/