Assignment - Git & GitHub

About Git & GitHub

Git is a software that can track changed in a set of files, and is often used to implement version control. It is currently the most commonly used software for version control, and is free and open-source.

GitHub is a cloud-based service for developers, which uses Git and a number of other features to allow developers to store, manage, and implement version control for their code between devices and other developers. In addition, GitHub Pages allows users to host static webpages that is available to the public.

Using GitHub

To use GitHub, first you have to create an account. I already had an account as I have used GitHub for past modules, so I could move to the next step.
GitHub organises files in repositories, which is a space to store all files related to a project. Any account can make an unlimited number of repositories. When creating a repository, some information is required.

You can give the repo a name, choose if it will be public or private, and initialise the repository with some other optional files. After creating a repository, it will look like this.

GitHub Pages

Using Git

Git most commonly implemented in the command line, and has a number of functions.

git config	Sets git configuration values for the project
git init	Initialises a new local repository
git clone [url]	Clones a remote repository
git add [file name]	Stages changes to the files listed
git commit	Commits the staged changes to the local repository
git push	Pushes the commited changes to the remote repository
git pull	Pulls the most recent version of the remote repository into the local repository

GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop provies a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to use git commands.

git clone

git add, git commit, git push, git status

git log, git checkout