Preface

You don’t have to learn gIt commands, you can download the GitHub Desktop App if you wish to use a GUI, but it is still important to learn about what each function does.

Also in most modern IDEs, there are GUIs for a lot of the git stuff, so the need to type into a command line is even less, but still good to know.

This guide assumes you have at least a basic knowledge of what “source control” is, if not, a quick Google search about “git” or “source control” will do.

Git has too many commands and functions to go over, read it yourself.

Setting up git

• Make a GitHub Account
• Download git and set it up → bash is sufficient (link is assuming u r on Windows, should also work for Mac, check specific commands for Linux/Unix)

Setting up SSH with git (optional, you can always use username password, but this is much faster)

• Follow the guide on GitHub Docs to generate an ssh key and add it to your account
• Note: the ssh files are usually saved in userName/.ssh directory, it's usually a hidden directory.
• You can read more about encryption and ssh in Wikipedia here

Basic Workflow

1. Using a command prompt or terminal
2. Clone the repo with git clone <url>
3. Navigate your working directory to the git repo
4. Fetch updates from the remote git fetch
5. Merge remote changes into your local git pull
6. Checkout a new branch git checkout -b <branch name>
7. Make changes