The 12 Days of Git, Day 8: Using Git to Experiment Safely

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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… eight different branches.

In the previous lesson, we learned about keeping your Git repository up-to-date with others’ changes by configuring an upstream remote and pulling new changesets from that remote. Today, we’re going to return to our example Santa Tracker repo, and learn about using Git to experiment safely. Continue reading The 12 Days of Git, Day 8: Using Git to Experiment Safely

The 12 Days of Git, Day 7: Keeping Your Git Repository Up-To-Date with Others’ Changes

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On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… seven sets of changes.

Yesterday, we learned about making a copy of a Git repository by cloning it directly, and by forking it on GitHub. Today, we’re going to learn about keeping Your Git repository up-to-date with others’ changes. Continue reading The 12 Days of Git, Day 7: Keeping Your Git Repository Up-To-Date with Others’ Changes

The 12 Days of Git, Day 6: Making a Copy of a Git Repository

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On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… six copies of projects.

Yesterday, we learned how to push changes to a remote repository with Git. Today, we’re going to see how to copy remote Git repositories to your local computer. Continue reading The 12 Days of Git, Day 6: Making a Copy of a Git Repository

The 12 Days of Git, Day 5: Sharing Changes Remotely with Git

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On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave me… five reasons to sing.

Today, we’re going to break free of the bonds of our own computers, and learn about sharing changes remotely with Git. Continue reading The 12 Days of Git, Day 5: Sharing Changes Remotely with Git

The 12 Days of Git, Day 4: Double-checking Changes with Git

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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… four different lines.

Our Twelve Days of Git song is really starting to take shape, and today we’ll cover double-checking changes with Git before you commit them. Continue reading The 12 Days of Git, Day 4: Double-checking Changes with Git