Git

Objectives

Students will be able to fork repositories and make pull requests.

The following commands configure Git to label and associate commits with your name and email.

$ git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
$ git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL"

The command git remote shows you the names of remotes you've added to your repo.

$ git remote

The command git remote -v shows you both the names and urls associated with a particular repo.

$ git remote -v

You can add a repo using the following command. origin is a conventional remote name.

$ git remote add <name> <url>

You rename a remote using rename.

$ git remote rename <oldName> <newName>

You can delete a remote using rm.

$ git remote rm <remote name>

Go to a repository you want to make a copy of and click the fork button at the top. This will generate a copy of the repo in your GitHub profile.
Use the green clone or download button to get a copy of your fork onto your computer. Any changes you make should be pushed to the fork.

A pull request is a request to merge the changes and commits in your fork to the main project repository. You