Git and GitHub - Step by Step for Beginners

Today we will learn:

Why to use git ?
(version control system)

We will look at the use case scenario
The problem faced without version control system
How git (vcs) helps in teams.

Today we will learn

1. What is GIT
2. What is GIT HUB
3. Is GIT related to GIT HUB
4. A simple workflow

GIT - VCS - version control system

 - to track changes in files / folders
        - to collaborate in teams
 - free and open source

Centralised VCS    |    Distributed VCS

GIT = DVCS

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GIT HUB - website to upload your repositories online
  - provides backup 
  - provides visual interface to your repo
  - makes collaboration easier

GIT  !=  GIT HUB

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Today we will learn

1. How to download and install git
2. Signup and create account on GitHub
3. Add a project/folder/file to git
4. Track and commit changes
5. Add the repository to GitHub
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Step 1 : Check if git is already installed.
  terminal - git --version

Step 2 : Download and install git
  https://git-scm.com/download/mac

Step 3 : Signup and create a account on GitHub
  https://github.com/

Step 4 : Add your github email and username to git
  git config --global user.email "yourGitHub@email.com"
  git config --global user.name "yourGitHubusername"

Step 5 : Add file/folders to git - tracking

Step 6 : Commands
   - terminal - goto the location of the folder/project
          - git init
   - git status
   - git add
   - git commit -m “…..”
   - git remote add origin “location of remote repo”
   - git push -u origin master
   - git log
   - git --help

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Today we will learn

1. How to install Git on windows
2. Adding project/files to git for tracking
3. Git commands
4. Pushing project to remote repository(github)
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Step 1 : check if git is already installed

             git --version

Step 2 : download and install git

Step 3 : add your project to git

Step 4 : commands

   git config --global user.email "yourGitHub@email.com"
   git config --global user.name "yourGitHubusername"

  - git init
  - git status
  - git add
  - git commit -m “…..”
  - git remote add origin https://github.com/RaghavAutomation/Repo2.git
  - git push -u origin master
  - git log
  - git —help

Step 5 : adding project to remote repository (github)
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Today we will learn

1. How to enable git commands autocomplete feature on mac os
2. How to enable git commands color features on mac os
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For autocomplete
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Step 1 :  goto terminal
        put git-completion.bash script in your home directory
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

Step 2 : Add following line to your .bash_profile. 
       This tells bash to run git autocomplete script if it exists

vi ~/.bash_profile

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
  . ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

For enabling git colors
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Step 1 : check if colouring is already enabled
  terminal - git config color.ui

Step 2 : enable colouring 
  git config --global color.ui true

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