git-task

To introduce folks to git version control system and github

For any issues/doubts:

Introduction

Go through this to understand more: Introduction.

We'll be uploading with a proper introduction shortly.

Instructions

These are for folks using Linux, Mac OSX. Windows people have to download git bash separately.

Basic Procedures

• Make a new repository in your account

  • There will be an option Initialize with README. Check that option.

• There are two methods to have a local repository in your machine

  1. First method
  • git clone <url> where <url> is the url of the repository you initialized. Eg. <url> for this repository is https://github.com/OSDLabs/git-task.
  • With this, a clone of the repo on github will be created
  2. Second method
  • Create a folder(repository) in your machine: mkdir <reponame>
  • Navigate into the directory: cd <reponame>
  • Initialize it as a git repository: git init
  • Link it with the online repository: git remote add origin <url> where <url> is the url of the repository you initialized.
  • Add some random files in the repository.
  • Add the files for staging for the next commit: git add ..
  • Commit(Save) the files: git commit -m <message> where <message> is in double quotes and can be anything to describe your commit.
  • Push it to your online repository: git push origin master
    • You'll end up with an error message saying that your local repository is not up-to-date with your online(remote) repository. This happens, because you have a README.md in the online repo which is not present in your local repository.git pull origin master will pull all the contents from the online(remote) repo to your local repo. Now proceed with: git push origin master

Making Contributions

Basic

• Make a fork of this repository
• Clone your fork to your device (git clone <url> where <url> is the url of the forked repository that is in your account and not https://github.com/OSDLabs/git-task)
• Create a new branch named contrib (git checkout -b contrib)
• Create a new file named yourname.txt in intro directory with your name and BITS ID as the content (refer to sebastinsanty.txt for an example)
• Commit (git add . & git commit -m <message>) the changes and push it to your fork git push origin contrib (read it as push the contrib branch to the remote named origin)
• Browse to your repository on Github and submit a pull request