Introduction to Git and GitHub
Working on a project alone can be sometimes tiring and slow, hence the need for more than one individual for a more fast and productive project. Git and GitHub as a platform encourages group project, source control and lot more, it gives the individual the leverage of contributing to a Project at a convenient time and space
Get started with git and github
Download Git for Windows
Browse to the official Git website: https://git-scm.com/downloads
Click the download link for Windows and allow the download to complete.
Basic Command in Git and GitHub
Version:
displays the version of github that is on you system
git --version
Create an account:
This command is for creating an identity on github which will be required when trying to pull or push to a github repository
git config --global user.name "Jane William"
$ git config --global user.email "williamjane@email"
Settings your default branch:
By default Git will create a branch called master when you create a new repository with git init. From Git version 2.28 onwards, you can set a different name for the initial branch.
To set main as the default branch name do:
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
Getting Help
Getting help in git is quite easy, there is a compile list of command to get you started on git and github, the help command are straight forward and can be done in three ways
git help <verb>
git <verb> --help
man git-<verb>
Cloning an existing project:
The git clone command get the full copy of a particular git repository into your local machine, it is meant to easy development and can be done using
git clone
https://github.com/ecommerce/website
Conclusion
Git and github has alot of command which cannot be covered on this article, here we make sure you can get started with using git and github , on the next article we will be take on more command on git and there usage
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