Github Tutorial For Beginners - Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Source Control Basics
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when newcomers to programming need a gentle, visual first introduction to Git and GitHub, such as setting up version control or understanding add, commit and push.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2015 to 2019.
What it is
An 18-minute beginner tutorial from LearnCode.academy introducing GitHub and source control basics, covering both the GitHub desktop apps for Mac and Windows and the command line. It walks through core concepts like repositories, commits and pushing to GitHub, and is the first lesson in a short series.
What people said
Recommends Adrian · 2015-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Edit a single Xcode project in multiple computers”
Git is version control software. If you're just getting started on programming, I'd highly recommend learning how to use it--it will make your programming life dramatically easier. Essentially, it allows you to save different versions of your software that can be accessed from different computers. You can create branches for different features of your software. Let's say you've got an existing master and you want to add a new ViewController. Rather than risk messing up your entire project, you can create a branch, add your ViewController, and once it's working properly, you can commit it to the repository and merge it with your master . Here's a video tutorial on it: [this video] Here's a cheatsh
Recommends jessehouwing · 2019-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Can't add file to github with git bash”
Git add is the first step to make Git aware of a file. Your next step is to git commit to create a snapshot of your files (your commit can contain multiple changes you add ed) The final step is to git push the changes to github. The add makes git aware of your changes. commit bundles one or more changes into a snapshot. push pushes one or more commits to another git repository. I highly recommend going through a getting started tutorial: [LINK] [this video]
Cites Celeritas · 2015-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Git command not recognized; where is it located?”
I'm trying to learn Github and following this video [this video] . I keep getting 'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. in cmd. I tried adding it to the PATH environment variable, but have no clue where Git.exe is located, or even if the install was succesfull. I'm running Windows 8.1 64bit and in control panel there is GitHub by GitHub inc. In C:\Program Files\Git there is one file called mtab