Intro to Git Workshop: Home
Intro to Git: Description
This guide provides additional resources to supplement the hands-on Intro to Git Workshop offered at the UNC Libraries: learn how to use Git, one of the most popular version control systems in the world. You don't have to be a developer to git started!
The last workshop was taught on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at Davis Library.
Prerequisites:
Slides:
- Git Intro for Library Staff: This slide deck was presented during the 3/13/2018 git intro workshop for librarians and library staff only. Exercises are adapted from Library Carpentry's Git Intro for Librarians lesson.
Basic Git Commands Cheatsheet
Setting up Git
| $ git config --global user.name "Mona Lisa" |
| Sets your username in Git; can be different than GitHub username |
| $ git config --global user.email "example@example.com" |
| Sets your email address in Git; should be same as GitHub email address so GitHub can associate your commits with your account |
Creating Git Repositories
| $ git init |
| Turns any folder into a Git repository |
| $ git clone https://github.com/username/repo-name.git |
| Copies an existing repository to your computer |
| $ git remote add origin https://github.com/username/repo-name.git |
| Links your local repository with your remote repository |
Making Changes
| $ git status |
| Returns status of changed files in your git repository |
| $ git add index.md |
| Adds changes made to a given file or set of files (index.md in this example) to your staging area |
| $ git commit -m "Add index.md" |
| Saves a snapshot of changes with a summary message |
| $ git push origin master |
| Syncs commits from your local repository up to your remote repository |
| $ git log |
| Returns list of local commits, or a history of saved snapshots |
| $ git pull origin master |
| Syncs commits from your remote repository down to your local repository |
Bonus
| $ git diff |
| View unstaged changes made to all files in your git repository |
| $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/original-owner/original-repo-name.git && git pull upstream master |
| Syncs your forked repository to the original repository (for more information, see GitHub's Configuring a remote for a fork.) |
Other Resources
More Tutorials:
- Learn Git on CodeAcademy
- Git Training and Tutorials on Lynda.com (free access provided via UNC onyen-login)
Tools:
- SourceTree: a free Git GUI that offers a visual representation of your repositories without having to use the command line
Other Resources:
- Library Carpentry: list of available lessons created by the Library Carpentry community, which provides software and data skills training aimed at the needs and requirements of library professionals
- Markdown Cheatsheet: quick reference for Markdown language
- GitHub Help
- GitHub's Git Cheatsheet: even more Git commands!
- Git Documentation
- Pro Git book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub: gives in-depth, but easy-to-understand explanations of version control and the Git workflow
- GitHub Pages Documentation
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