Introduction to Git and GitHub

A simple website created to teach students the basics of version control in software development using git and Github for a workshop conducted by Nexus, SJCET.

Speaker: Athul Cyriac Ajay

Pre-requisites

• Install Git on your computer. Instructions for installing Git on:
  • GNU/Linux and MacOS
  • Windows

Instructions

• Fork this repo and clone it to your local machine (git clone <fork_url>).

• Create file with your name seperated by - or _ in the content folder.

• Add the template given below and fill in the respective details.

  ---
  name: "Your Name"
  desc: "About You"
  college: "College Name"
  web: "website"
  github: "github username"
  ---

  The name, desc, college and github fields are mandatory. If you do not have a website set those fields to none like so:

  web: "none"

• Commit your changes with a proper commit message and push your changes to fork.

• Open a pull request against the main branch of this repo from your fork.

• Wait for someone to review the changes. After review, the maintainer will either merge your changes or suggest changes if required.

References

• Git Cheatsheet
• Git Documentation