Learn Git and GitHub Basics for Beginners | Quick Start Guide
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Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap A git and GitHub beginners quick start guide to learn the basics for using a git bash terminal inside of Visual Studio Code. Full outline and timestamps below! Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn 🕓 Outline with timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:24) Download and install git (1:06) Download and install Visual Studio Code (1:43) Git Bash terminal window (2:22) Opening your project in VS Code (3:18) Opening Git Bash inside of VS Code (4:10) git init (4:43) git status and untracked files (5:10) git add (5:49) git commit (6:34) Making changes to our code (7:12) git status and modified files (7:29) Repeat the process to update the repository (8:07) Insertions and deletions (9:17) GitHub (9:49) Create new GitHub repository (10:27) “...or push an existing repository from the command line” (12:00) Our local git repository is now linked to our GitHub (12:33) Viewing our files on GitHub (13:00) Making more changes to our project (13:50) Adding the new project changes to our local git repository (15:25) git push (sending changes to GitHub) (16:30) Viewing the new project changes on GitHub 📺 More Beginner Dev Videos: freeCodeCamp: https://youtu.be/PkZNo7MFNFg Traversy Media: https://youtu.be/hdI2bqOjy3c The Net Ninja: https://youtu.be/iWOYAxlnaww ✅ Follow Me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/DaveOnEleven LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/ Was this tutorial about learning git and GitHub basics as a beginner helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. #GitHub #git #bash
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