git-github.md

GIT & GITHUB

Git Setup

First install Git.

Then, in your terminal:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your_email@real_email.edu"

Use the same email address you set up your GitHub account with.

GITHUB - CREATE A REPO

• Create a new Repository
• Copy the URL for the repository (you can simply copy the url bar, or use the green “code” button on the page)
• In your terminal (on macOS it’s cmd+space, type terminal to find the app).
  • Go to the directory you want to clone your repo inside of (it will create a new directory for you in the clone command).
    • You can move around by using commands like cd <directory-name> to go “into” a new directory and cd .. to go up one
  • type
    • git clone <copied-url-here>
    • for example: git clone https://github.com/wallacepreston/example-repo.git
    • That creates example-repo (or whatever the repo name is) inside the directory you’re in on your computer.
  • Then you can move anything in there that you want to be in that repo on gitHub. Steps from there:
    • git add -A (adds everything in current repo to the staging area)
    • git commit -am “my message” (creates a “version” or commit)
    • git push origin master (puts everything in the repo on github)