dianalir / workshop_github

Very basic workshop for members of the Solana Lab

GitHub workshop - Solana Group

Overview of key terms

• fork a GitHub repository -> copy a collaborator’s repository to your own GitHub account
• clone it locally -> copy the repository/file to your computer while maintaining a connection to your remote (GitHub) version
• create a new file locally and commit it to your local repository -> save the file locally in your version control system
• push your changes to your GitHub version -> synchronise your local changes with your remote repository
• contribute a file to the original repository by making a pull request -> request your collaborator, the owner of the original repository, to fetch your proposed changes and merge them into the original repository
• pull the upstream repository into your fork -> update your fork to reflect all the changes that happened in your collaborator’s original repository

Step-by-step tutorial

The steps in this section must be follow in order

• Create a GitHub account
• Fork - Copy the collaborator's repository
• Google colab - GitHub via google drive
• Commit - Make changes and save them locally
• Push - Update your remote repository with your local changes
• Pull request - Ask your collaborator to integrate your changes in their repository
• Merged results - Observe the merge of all contributions

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