Git and GitHub

Speaker: Ifeanyi Iheagwara

Git is a version control tool (software) to track the changes in the source code. GitHub is a web-based cloud service to host your source code(Git repositories). It is a centralized system.

Git doesn't require GitHub but GitHub requires Git. In this session, you'll learn how to do the following:

✅ What is Git and GitHub?
✅ GitHub Terminologies
✅ Project workflow and collaboration using GitHub
✅ GitHub README and Pages

You can find me on Github: https://github.com/Bennykillua

Transcript

1. Git and GitHub Social coding Ifeanyi Iheagwara
2. Speaker Profile v Ifeanyi Iheagwara ➢ Data Analyst at UrBizEdge ➢ Technical writer Bennykillua Bennykillua
3. Outline • What is Git and GitHub? • Github terminologies • Project workflow and collaboration using GitHub • GitHub README and Pages
4. —Someone Famous “Git is like a time machine for your project!”
5. What is Git? • Distributed (everyone has a copy) • Collaboration (everyone can make changes) • Asynchronous (snapshot of the projects at various point in time) • Open-source Version control (organized historical management) • Local
6. Version Control • Store (retain backus) • Restore (revert to a pervious versions) • Compare (shows chnages) • Collaboration (everyone can make changes) • Branch
7. —Someone Famous “At its heart, GitHub is a collaboration platform.”
8. What is GitHub? The online hosting service. Github use Git to track every contribution
9. Benefits Safe Private and public Powerful version control tool Community Support branch development Capable of handling large project Speed and simplicity Collaboration
10. Github terminologies Repository Master Branch Checkout Commit Push and Pull Pull request Merge Clone Fork 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
11. Have this in mind
12. Repository (repo) • Folder for your project • Hold the file and its history The online hosting service.
13. Master • Primary branch of the repo. • All commits and changes are on the master branch.
14. Branch • Parallel version of a repo. • Doesn’t affect the master branch • Merge this branch to master when you want to publish
15. Checkout • Switching branch in a repo • git checkout -b branch-name
16. Commit • Saving change in the repo
17. Push and Pull • Push: moving changes from Local machine into the repo • Pull: receiving changes from Github
18. Pull request (PR) • After making changes, you make a PR so the repo maintainer can review your commits and accept. • Accepting the changes to the master
19. Merge • Taking changes from your branch and adding them into master branch
20. Clone • Making a local copy of a repo
21. Fork • Copy of another’s person repo. • Allows you make changes.
22. Project workflow and collaboration using GitHub Issue raised (could be a bug, typo or contribution) 1 Create a branch to address issue 2 Add commits 3 Pull request 4 Review changes and get feedback 5 Merge changes 6
23. More features of GitHub Project boards 1 Insights 2 Special files: contributing.md, issue_template.md, Readme 3 GitHub Actions 4
24. Create a Github account 1 Create a repo: username.github. io 2 Open your terminal and clone the repo 3 Add an index.html file 4 Making a GitHub Pages
25. Making a GitHub Pages Push 5
26. Create a Github account 1 Create a new repo: username 2 Edit the READMe: Knowledge of markdown and HTML 3 Commit 4 Making a GitHub README
27. Resume via GitHub GitHub pages 1 https://devcover.me/ 2
28. Resources • https://lab.github.com/githubtraining/introduction-to-github • https://www.nobledesktop.com/learn/git/git-branches • https://towardsdatascience.com/build-a-stunning-readme-for-your-github- profile-9b80434fe5d7 • https://dev.to/joojodontoh/host-your-resume-on-github-pages-514g • https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance- Software/dp/0578675862 • https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions • https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats