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Pre‐Voyage Meeting #1 ‐ Introduction to Git (Optional)

Mikey Nichols edited this page Jan 18, 2024 · 4 revisions

Chingu Voyage 47 - Tier 1 Team #04

Pre-Voyage Meeting #1 - Introduction to Git (Optional)

10 January 2024 / 2:00 PM GMT -5 (New York)

ATTENDEES

AGENDA

  • What is Git? Why are we using it?
  • Ensure that Git in installed locally (git --version)
  • Make sure you are not already in a GitHub Repository on your computer (git status)
  • Clone our team repository to your machine (git clone https://github.com/chingu-voyages/v47-tier1-team-04.git)
  • View status of repository using terminal (git status)
  • Learn what branches are available locally (git branch)
    • Go to the GitHub Repository see what branches are available remotely
  • How to switch between branches, talk about the HEAD branch and the importance of switching to development branch. (git checkout)
    • Switch to the 22/development/documentation and fetch/pull in the data. (git checkout 22/development/documentation)
  • View changes made to a branch over time by using the log command (git log)
    • How to navigate, and most importantly leave the viewer!
    • How to view past commits
  • Create a new branch following the issue-number/feature-fix-refactor/description/username (git switch -c 22/refactor/contributors/username)
  • Add github username to the docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md file.
  • Push changes made to remote repository (git push)
  • Create a pull request to merge branch into 22/development/documentation branch
  • Conclusion
NOTES

Notes that I took while following along with Colt Steele's Git and GitHub Bootcamp

ACTION ITEMS

Everybody that attends should create their first pull request to the repository after following the steps necessary to create a sub-branch of the intended development branch.