Github from scratch

I've recently gone on a Scrimba Livestream to talk about git and Github. I love simple workflows with git and this is my cheat-sheet to use. Feel free to hit me up on twitter or Scrimba Discord if you have any questions. Also if you spot something not right, raise a PR 😉. (Details below)

Contributing to a repo

Pick a repo, fork it (optional) and clone it.

Alternatively, create a new one.

# replace the below URL with the repo in your account that you want to work with
git clone https://github.com/alanmynah/alanmynahdotcom.git

Then just follow Branching steps

Branching

# create a new branch and switch to it
git checkout -b new-branch
# connect the local new branch to the remote counter part
git push --set-upstream origin new-branch

Now follow the steps in My daily workflow

My daily workflow

# add all the files
git add .
# commit
# tips on helpful commit messages:
# https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/writing-good-commit-messages-a-practical-guide/
git commit -m "type: brief description (<50 chars) of work done"
# push
git push

After a few commits, raise a PR.

When done, don't forget to Pull after a PR

Pull after a PR

git status # should be on the branch
git checkout main
git pull

Then pick a new feature and create new branch as described in Branching section

Creating a repo

Create a repository locally (like via CRA), go to github.com, create a repository via UI.

Copy and paste the steps from the outline in …or push an existing repository from the command line.

These are the steps:

create-react-app my-blog
# these are pasted from `…or push an existing repository from the command line` section when new repo is created.
git remote add origin https://github.com/alanmynah/my-blog.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main