Leaving this here for all the people that want to get up and running with Git and GitHub in around 56 seconds.
This mini tutorial assumes you already have:
– a linux machine with git OR a windows machine with git installed (see links);
– a github account/repo for the remote commits (see bottom links for help on this);
– a love of zombies – not really necessary but it helps.
Off we go, read on.
Create a directory with the source codes of your project
Open a terminal/git bash on it, or/and navigate to the dir, and do this:
to setup the git files:
to creates a file called README (optional but not really):
to stage the README. this adds it to the list of files to be commited eventually:
same as above, but for all the .py files, be criative to add your own files:
to commit your files, with the message between quotes:
this next command is for a remote commit, and creates a remote named “origin” pointing at your hub repository. Be sure to change [username] for your username and [my-project] by, well, your project name (remove the brackets on both):
to send your commits in the master branch to GitHub:
Go to your github account/project and smile.
Go read and get smarter, theres really a lot of fun stuff to learn:
– GitHub help article about creating a repo
– Git reference (great read)