Setup

Local environment setup

Windows only: On Windows, you will need to run these commands from git bash (Git Bash download).

Link your github to your local environment
See: Connecting to GitHub with SSH

Or complete these steps in order:
- Checking for existing SSH keys
- Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent (The section about "Generating a new SSH key" and the section "Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent")
- Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account
Add your git email and username to your local environment
- $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Locate and click on the green CODE button in the top right of this page
Select SSH
Copy the url
In your terminal, cd into the location where you would like this repo to live. The next command will create a folder containing this repo's files.
Type the following command :
git clone <url> (replace <url> with the url)

In this exercise you will learn about:

Create a branch off the main branch

By creating a branch, you're making a copy of the branch that you're currently on (i.e. main), and giving a name to this copy (your branch name). Changes to your branch will not affect the source branch.

Command: git checkout -b <name-of-your-branch> (replace <name-of-your-branch> with the name of your branch)

Stage your changes, preparing for the commit

When you make changes to files you must stage them before committing them. Only staged changes will be saved when you commit. If you don't want to save the changes to a specific file for example, you could avoid staging that file. In your next commit, those changes will not be included.

Command: git add .

The . here represents "the current folder", or in other words "all files in the current folder". You could also stage a single file like this: git add words.py .
Commit your staged changes and write a short descriptive message about your changes.

The commit command captures a snapshot of the project's currently staged changes. You can always roll back to this commit later, no matter what other changes you've made.

Command: git commit -m "<short description of changes>"
Push your locally committed changes to github.com

The push command uploads all your current commits to your github repository.

Command: git push

⚠️ The first time you run git push on a newly created branch, it does not yet exist on github. You will get an error message showing you the command to run to create this branch on github.com. It should look something like this: git push --set-upstream origin <name-of-your-branch>

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 25 Commits
week1-git-story		week1-git-story
.DS_Store		.DS_Store
README.md		README.md
main.py		main.py
story.py		story.py
word.py		word.py
words.py		words.py