Document Git Basics for Contributors: Branching, Committing, and Collaboration

[machine-moon]

Description

Provide a comprehensive guide to Git basics for contributors. Cover creating and switching branches, making commits, amending commits, merging branches, pushing changes, and common best practices.

Type of Internal Work

• Technical debt/refactoring
• Dependency upgrade
• Script/tooling development
• Platform/infrastructure
• Documentation
• Maintenance
• Other: ___________

Details

• How to branch (git branch, git checkout, git reset, git reflog)
• Committing (git add, git commit), and amending commits
• Merging branches and resolving conflicts
• Pushing to remote repositories
• Step-by-step examples for common workflows
• Best practices for collaboration

Acceptance Criteria

• Clear, step-by-step explanations for each Git operation
• Examples included for each workflow
• Easy to follow for beginners

Additional Context

[JeremyFriesenGitHub]

already documented, related to refactor issue (see carletonai/docs#2)

[machine-moon]

Thanks Jeremey, this ticket isn't something to be completed it's a starting ticket for fresh contributors to get familiar with git.

I expect .md documents from the rest of you still 🙂