In this brief post we’ll cover the terms “origin”, “remote” and work with pulling & pushing from externally hosted repositories. If someone were to break into your house, rip your PC from the wall and throw it into the ocean, you’d never get your code back, unless it was hosted “in the cloud” or on …
What is Origin? Pushing, Pulling, and remotes in Git Read More »
As a software developer, one of the first tools you MUST learn is Git. A version control system like git has many benefits. Here’s a list of benefits/uses: allows multiple developers to work on projects easily. work on different features of your app separately. Keep track of the history of your project. (You can easily …
Learning Git: Introduction to Git Setup Installation Read More »
In this post we’ll talk about how to handle conflicts in Git. Once you learn how to do it it’s not that scary, but it definitely helps to learn how to do it on code that doesn’t matter as opposed to production code. Check out all of our Git tutorials here. Note: This is a …
In this post we’ll cover how use Git “branching” and “stashing”. This is part of a Git Tutorial Series. See all the Git tutorials here. Why use Branching? Branching allows you to do work outside of the “master” branch. The master branch is always supposed to work. As you’re developing you’ll probably introduce new bugs …
Git revert and Git reset allow you to “go back” to different commits in your commit history. Say the last 5 commits you made are no good. You can “reset” back to 5 commits ago, or you can “revert”. The problem with reset is that it’s destructive. It will wipe the commits off the face …
Check out all our Git tutorials here. In this post we’re going to cover our first Git commands. Making a Commit Typically each project will have its own Git repository. You can tell a git repository exists by the hidden .git/ directory in a project. Let’s make a demo project to mess around in, “initialize …