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GitHub Basics

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Push Your Project to GitHub

5:49 with Kyle Daigle and Alyson La

Go in-depth with some of GitHubs most essential features, which are the backbone of open source on GitHub.

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Git Commands

  • git init: Initialize a git repository in your directory
  • git status: check the status of the repository
  • git add [file_name]: add one file
  • git add . : add all files
  • git commit -m "commit message": commit your files along with a message
  • git remote add origin [link to your repo]: the remote URL to your GitHub repo
  • git push origin main: push your files up to GitHub on the main branch

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    In this stage, we'll go in depth with some of GitHub's most essential features, 0:00
    issues using markdown, branching, and pull requests. 0:00
    Used together, these features are the backbone of open source on GitHub. 0:04
    And learning how to use them to add your projects to the site, 0:08
    will be a great foundation to both showcase your work, and 0:10
    start contributing to the open source community. 0:13
    So, now that we've created a repository, let's open our terminal and 0:16
    push up a project to GitHub. 0:20
    Quick review. 0:22
    When I say push, I'm talking about the Git push command where we'll push our 0:23
    project on our local computer, up to a remote repository on GitHub. 0:27

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