Pre Course Git Fu

Pre Class Video

Terms for learning Git

• Repository - a storage location for a file or collection of files
• Git - Version Control - git is an open source softwere (used by github for example) for tracking and reviewing changes in software versions or releases
• Clone - To make a local or remote copy from a repository
• Fork - To create a branch off a master project in order do work on that project without affecting the master project. It is way to manage contributions to a project
• History - a timestamped log of commits to a repository
• Staging - on a local system, the process by which a file is prepared to for a commit
• Remote - a repository (usually a clone to a machine separate from master) from which a developer modifies code
• Commit - the process of adding changes to code
• Push - sending code back to a repository from a local system to be recorded in the repository's commit history

Steps to our Lamba School Git Flow

1. Fork repository
2. git clone w/ the repository URL
3. After Changes Made: git status
4. git add <file-name>
5. git status to check what is staged
6. git commit -m 'made changes to the Readme'
7. git push

Vijay Das - adding this line to chage the README Note: this is my second pull request, I had not completed assignment the first pull