A hands on development session on GitHub to help you jump start with collaborative open-source developments. Good if you already know Git; if not, then it'll help you learn.
Session covers GitHub basics, issues, wikis, pull-requests and github-pages for free static web-hosting for the project-websites.
More details: https://gist.github.com/debloper/4954530
- Install Git in your system: http://git-scm.com/downloads
- Additionally install GUI/Viz clients
- Git-GUI is bundled in Windows' Git installer
- Git-GUI for Linux can be installed with corresponding package managers (yum, aptitude, etc.)
- GitX for Mac can be downloaded from http://gitx.frim.nl
- There are a few other tools available for the brave ones: http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
- Additionally install GUI/Viz clients
- Get a GitHub account, if you haven't already done so
- Visit http://github.com & fill the sign-up form
- Verify the sign-up confirmation email
- Revisit http://github.com & sign-in
- Configure Git to use your (global) credentials
$ git config --global user.name "Full Name"$ git config --global user.email "your@email.id"$ git config --global credential.helper cache$ git config --global core.autocrlf true— line-ending fix, for Windows only
- [OPTIONAL] Setting up SSH keys
- Run
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your@email.id" - Provide a password for your id_rsa file generated in <user_dir>/.ssh
- It's a good practice to give a password, but is NOT mandatory (blank password accepted).
- Open the
id_rsa.pubfile, select all & copy its contents (don't miss even a single character) - Go to your GitHub account > Account Settings (Tools Icon) > SSH Keys > Add SSH Key
- Here, paste the copied content in the input field & click "Add Key"
- If everything went right, running
$ ssh -T git@github.comshould authenticate you - If you're confused, or need more detailed steps, then follow: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
- Run
That's all... now, go Git it! ;)