Git and Github Session

Event Details:

Hosts:

Saurav Pati

Piyush Mishra

Shubhasai Mohapatra

Date: 21 May, 2022

Topics Covered:

• Introduction to Git
• Hands on training on Git
• Importance of Git and its Visualization
• Introduction to GitHub
• Detailed training on GitHub
• Introduction to Open Source
• Details on “How to contribute to a project?”

Most Used Commands in Git:

• Sets up Git with your name

  git config --global user.name "<Your-Full-Name>"

• Sets up Git with your email

  git config --global user.email "<your-email-address>"

• To create/inialize a new Git repository

  git init

• To know the state of our repository as seen by Git

  git status

• To move files from the Working Directory to the Staging Index

  git add <file1> <file2> … <fileN>

  To add all the files:

  git add .

• To saves a log message along with the commit id of the modifications made to the git repository

  git commit –m "<your commit message>"

• To push the contents of your local repository to the remote repository you’ve added

  git push -u origin <branch-name>

• To create a new branch locally

  git branch <branch-name>

  To take a look at the branches and check out on which branch you’re currently working:

  git branch or git branch --list

• To switch to an existing branch or to create and switch to a new one

  git checkout <branch-name>

• To join a branch to the parent branch

  git merge <name-of-branch-to-merge-in>

• To produce a local working copy of a remote repository’s source code

  git clone https://github.com/<repo-url>

• To fetch and integrate a remote repository with your local repository

  git pull

• To show all of a repository’s commits

  git log