Introduction
The first part of this series focused on the GitHub introduction, and the second part focused on the GitHub basics such as forking & creating GitHub Repo. Although it may take a little more time to get both parts working, you’ll be able to use it for a long time.
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How to create a GitHub repository?
To put your project up on GitHub, you will need to create a repository for it to live in.
- In the upper-right corner of any page, use the
+drop-down menu, and select New repository. - Type a short, memorable name for your repository. For example, "hello-world".
- Optionally, add a description of your repository. For example, "My first repository on GitHub."
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- Choose a repository visibility.
- Select Initialize this repository with a README.
- Click Create repository.
Congratulations! You've successfully created your first repository and initialized it with a README file.
How to commit changes in the repository?
A commit is like a snapshot of all the files in your project at a particular point in time.
- In your repository's list of files, click README.md.
- Above the file's content, click the pen sign .
- On the Edit file tab, type some information about yourself.
- Above the new content, click Preview changes.
- At the bottom of the page, type a short, meaningful commit message that describes the change you made to the file. You can attribute the commit to more than one author in the commit message.
- Below the commit message fields, decide whether to add your commit to the current branch or to a new branch. If your current branch is the default branch, you should choose to create a new branch for your commit and then create a pull request
- Click Propose file change
How to fork a GitHub repository?
- On GitHub.com, navigate to the [EddieHubCommunity/hacktoberfest-practice](https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/hacktoberfest-practice)repository.
- In the top-right corner of the page, click Fork.
- Select an owner for the forked repository.
- By default, forks are named the same as their parent repositories. You can change the name of the fork to distinguish it further.
- Optionally, add a description of your fork
- Choose whether to copy only the default branch or all branches to the new fork. For many forking scenarios, such as contributing to open-source projects, you only need to copy the default branch. By default, only the default branch is copied.
- Click Create fork.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading this complete guide to version control on GitHub. Whether you're a beginner or a more experienced user, I hope that this guide has helped you understand the different ways to use GitHub more quickly. I'll be adding more information on GitHub If you found this guide helpful, please like, share, and follow for more blog posts like this in the future.
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