Topics

This page links to the conceptual topics covered in the workshop.

• Why use Github?
• Git vs Github
• Git fundamentals (clone, commit, push)
• Publish a repository
• Ignore files (gitignore)
• Branches
• Merging branches

Glossary

• branches: Concurrent versions of a repository.
• commit: A saved version of a repository.
• commit: Saving a version of a project and documenting the changes.
• clone: Downloading a remote repository to your computer.
• gitignore: A plain text file named ‘.gitignore’ located at the top level of the repository. The gitignore specifies files that should be ignored in the repository.
• local: The repository stored on your computer.
• merge: Combining two branches
• merge conflict: An error that occurs when trying to merge branches that have different versions of the same line.
• publish: Uploading a new repository to the cloud to create a remote repository.
• push: Uploading commits to the remote repository.
• remote: A repository stored on the cloud.
• repo: A repository.
• repository: The folder where the files for a project are stored.