GIT guide for juniors

✨ Introductions

This guide is created for beginners to ensure the development and production branches are secure.

🚀 Let's start

1) Get the repository:

First, you need to choose which type of connection to the GitHub repository suits you best.

• SSH: Use this if you have it configured locally and the public key added in the (ssh) settings section on the GitHub website.

• HTTPS: The basic option using your username and password.
  

git clone <repository_url>

2) Get all branches:

git fetch --all

3) Move to the dev branch:

git checkout <dev>

4) Create and move to a new branch:

git checkout -b <branch_name>

⚡ The branch name must be the task name.

5) Add changes or Undo changes:

Add changes

git add <file_name>

or

git add *

Undo changes to certain files if they were not added to git:

git checkout <file_name>

Removes an object from git repository, but not file:

git rm -r --cached <file_name>

⚡ Make sure that files not allowed in the remote repository have not been added.

• For example: .env, cache files and temporary files.

6) Apply changes:

git commit -m 'branch_name: list of changes'

7) Push the new branch alongside the one from which you created it:

git push --set-upstream origin <branch_name>

8) Pull changes from a specific remote repository:

git pull origin <branch_name>

P.S. Follow the steps outlined above, and your project repository will remain secure.