{"id":3224,"date":"2018-05-15T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2018-05-15T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:23:28","slug":"github-learning-basic-setup-and-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Github – learning basic setup and use"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have downloaded a lot of stuff from Github but haven’t really bothered figuring what it was about.<\/p>\n

I found this video a simple way to get my head around it and get to use it initially:<\/p>\n

Github Tutorial For Beginners – Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Source Control Basics<\/a><\/p>\n

I had signed up to an account previously ( only realising when I tried to make a new account of the same name).<\/p>\n

I downloaded the windows 64 bit version of the desktop app<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After creating a new blank ” repository” called <\/strong>PanoramaHTML<\/em> in my Github account as per the video with a ReadMe.md<\/em> file created.<\/p>\n

I created a new directory called github in my downloads directory (my area of working) and then created a subdirectory called PanoramaHTML. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Then went to that directory and tried to use the command as per the video:<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML1>git clone<\/strong> https:\/\/github.com\/drakemax\/PanoramaHTML.git<\/p>\n

It didn’t work. In the command console windows did not recognise the “git” command.<\/p>\n

So back to Mr Google & StackOverflow where I found this article<\/a>. It pointed to using this software” Git for Windows<\/a>” . I downloaded that software (slow to start up the .exe file) and it works fine, so I can now use git on the command line as per the video.<\/p>\n

So, after getting git to work on the command prompt I redid the command:<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\>git clone<\/strong> https:\/\/github.com\/drakemax\/PanoramaHTML.git<\/p>\n

I only went to the main directory:<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\><\/p>\n

To run the command. The clone command creates\/adds the subdirectory:<\/p>\n

\/PanoramaHTML<\/p>\n

on my computer. So that is easy, no need to create a directory for where you want it to be.<\/p>\n

After setting up the directory on my computer I proceeded to place all the files in there that I wanted and also updated the README.md file to explain what files are in there and how to use them.<\/p>\n

As I had updated the files on my computer, I need to change directory using<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\> cd PanoramaHTML<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML\\><\/p>\n

Once directory changed, I needed to add the files to the git repository, as I’d added folders and files and updated the readme.md file, so<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML\\> git add -A (this adds all  file contents to the index<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Then I needed to Record changes to the repository<\/em> using the commit<\/strong> command so:<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML\\> git commit -m “Folders and files added to directory and Readme file updated<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Then I can push the files up to GITHUB with:<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML\\> git push<\/p>\n

To check if they are the same (local git on computer and one at github :<\/p>\n

\\Downloads\\_Github\\PanoramaHTML>git status
\nOn branch master<\/em>
\nYour branch is up to date with ‘origin\/master’.<\/em><\/p>\n

So that is great.<\/p>\n

I can now use the clone\/download button to copy the link to share it with others:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/drakemax\/PanoramaHTML.git<\/p>\n

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I have downloaded a lot of stuff from Github but haven’t really bothered figuring what it was about. I found this video a simple way to get my head around it and get to use it initially: Github Tutorial For Beginners – Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Source Control Basics I had signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-python","category-web"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/imgit01.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/imgit01.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Max Drake","author_link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}