Beginner's Guide to Github

Date : Mon 21 March 2016 By : Adi Ultra  | Category : git

Tags : git github

 

Github : A Beginner's Guide

Github image

This article is for those who know how to code and are new to github, and git in overall. This article provides a subtle intro for git and its hosting service Github.

git - The project management tool

Git is a command line tool for source code management. That is, it manages your code. It makes a history of changes for you to browse, and helps maintain it using Branches.

Here's how to set up git.

According to git's official documentation git is this.

For a git crash course read this.

Octocat Experimenting git

The greatest way to learn git is to use it. But for some reason you may not want to dive deep right now. Visit github's Code School for learning git. It allows you to experiment with git and increase your confidence.


Github

After visiting sites about git you can move on to Github. It is a remote hosting service for your git repositories. (You may be unable to understand from now on if you didn't visit any links above).

Github's own Intro suffices its intro.

Another Intro for Github.

One Intro is also available on Instructables.

Tools to use

  • Ungit - easy to use git client.
  • gitg - Git repo management app.

After Using github your coding will become like this:

Coding octocats

PS. Great octocat icons can be found here : https://octodex.github.com/

 

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