In this tutorial, we'll provide a complete introduction to both GitHub and Git. Learn the differences and how to use them.

The GitHub tutorial suggests writing something about yourself. I’d suggest that you experiment with Markdown using GitHub’s Mastering Markdown page, Adam Pritchard’s Markdown Cheatsheet, and ...

Figure F The GitHub Desktop repository tutorial is a great place to start for new users. And that’s how you get started with the GitHub Desktop application.

A developer only needs two steps to get started with Git. First, create a new local repository with the git init command. Second, issue the git clone command to locally copy the contents of a remotely ...

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And Git should not be confused with GitHub, which is a hosting service for Git repositories, the bundle of files and folders that represent your work and the typically-invisible data files that track ...

How to switch between Git branches Alternatively, a developer who queried “git branch change” may be uninterested in a renaming. Instead, she or he wants to better understand the command to change ...

To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...