Intro to Git and GitHub

By GovLab research fellow Mehan Jayasuriya

GitHub is one of the most popular new platforms in the world of software development. It provides a suite of tools that allow computer programmers to work collaboratively on massive projects with peers around the globe. Increasingly, GitHub is also being used by non-programmers, as a collaborative platform for everything from policy and legal documents to wedding invitations. In this 30-minute tutorial, we'll explain what GitHub is, why it's so powerful and show you how to start using it for your own projects.

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1. Intro to Git and GitHub Gov 3.0, September 2013
2. What is Git? Distributed version-control system Developed by Linus Torvalds in 2005 Initially used for Linux kernel development
3. What is GitHub? Founded in 2008 Web-hosting for Git repositories Social networking features 3 million users / 5 million repos
4. Why use GitHub? Online backup for version history Ability to collaborate on projects with multiple developers Ability to easily fork existing projects Social platform for discovering the work of millions of fellow open-source developers
13. What’s forking?
17. How does it work? GitHub repo Repository Your laptop
18. How does it work? GitHub repo
19. How does it work? GitHub repo Terminal
20. How does it work? GitHub repo Terminal GitHub for Mac
21. Basic Git commands GitHub repo
22. Push GitHub repo
23. Anatomy of a Push GitHub repo git add git commit git push
24. Anatomy of a Push GitHub repo git add . git commit -m “first commit!” git push origin master
25. Pull GitHub repo
26. Clone GitHub repo GitHub repo
27. Pull request GitHub repo GitHub repo
28. Demo
29. Demo touch  README git  init git  add  README git  commit  -­‐m  "first  commit" git  remote  add  origin   git@github.com:mehan/test.git git  push  origin  master
31. Additional Resources
32. Questions?