What is GitHub?

GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere.

Install Git

• Linux

sudo apt-get install git

• Mac OS X

  • homebrew

    Please refer to the documentation: [homebrew][1]

  • Xcode

    • Xcode -> Preferences

    • Downloads -> Command Line Tools -> Install

• Window

  • msysgit

    Please refer to the link: [git for windows][2]

For further configuration:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"

$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Notice: git config --global will set all of your project using the same username, you can certainly use different accounts for different projects.

Create a new repository

• Create a remote repository on GitHub.com

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/your.username/your.project.git
  

• Add file to repository

  $ touch readme.txt
  $ git add readme.txt
  

• Submit file to repository

  git commit -m "wrote a readme file"
  

• Push to the remote repository

  git push -u origin master
  

Useful Links

https://www.liaoxuefeng.com/wiki/0013739516305929606dd18361248578c67b8067c8c017b000

https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/

https://guides.github.com/

[1]: https://brew.sh/

[2]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/