Git + GitHub Basics

This tutorial is designed to introduce the basic commands of Git, and explain how to get started contributing on GitHub.

It will cover the difference between Git & GitHub, committing, branching, pushing and pulling.

This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of the command line. For a guide to command line basics, see my other tutorial here.

To view this as a GitBook as it was intended, you can read it here

Commands Covered in this Tutorial

• git init
• git status
• git diff
• git add
• git commit
• git log
• git show
• git reset
• git checkout
• git branch
• git merge
• git clone
• git remote
• git fetch
• git pull
• git push

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This tutorial was a joint effort between Kelsey Hawley who was a beginner many years ago and Nicholle James who was a beginner more recently.

Graphics

Branching and Remote graphics were borrowed from Atlassian's Git Tutorial, which is a great deep dive for the intermediate + advanced.