The basic git workflow

The normal workflow when using git is described briefly on this page.

Consider this as a kind of “cheat sheet”, rather than as a full tutorial on the use of git/github.

One time setup per project:

Short version:

cd ~/github
git clone https-clone-url-of-your-repo
cd repo-name

Longer version:

• Find the repository’s web page on github.com
• Find the HTTPS clone URL on the right hand side, about half way down.
• If the link says SSH clone URL instead of HTTPS clone URL, click the blue HTTPS link.
• Copy the link.
• cd into your ~/github directory on your ACMS account (or wherever you want the repo to be stored).
• Do the command git clone paste-your-https-clone-url-here
• Do an ls command, and you should now have a directory with the same name as your repositority.
• cd into that directory to do your work.

Each time you make a change

It is recommended, but not required, to do a git status before and after each git command, as shown below.

To add files into the “next commit” you are going to do:

git status
git add  names-of-files-you-changed
git status

To make that commit permanent and add a comment:

git status
git commit -m "AB/CD describe your changes"
git status

• When pairing, AB is the initials of the driver, CD are the initials of the navigator
• If you leave off the -m "comment" part, you’ll be thrown into vim.
  • To get out, press the escape key once, type a colon :, then type wq and press enter.

To push those commits from your local directory on ACMS up to the github.com server:

git status
git push origin master
git status

Troubleshooting:

• If push is rejected because the remote has work you do not have locally, do a git pull origin master first.
• If you are thrown into vim, use escape :wq then press Enter/Return to save the automatic commit message.)