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Practicing with Git and Github

This assignment will walk you through forking the repository for this program, cloning your forked copy to your local machine, and some of the Git commands discussed in lecture. Similar to the Unix assignment, this assignment will be fairly brief, as familiarity with Git and Github will come over time as you interact with them more and more.

1.) Open up your browser and navigate to this program's repository on Github.

2.) Fork this repository, making sure to fork it to your Github account (usually it forks to your Github account by default, so if you're not prompted, then you should be fine). The button to Fork should be up in the top right of the page:

Github Forking

3.) Now navigate to your own Github repository, and grab the URL for your fork so that you can clone it to your local machine. You should be able to find the URL in the top middle of the page:

Clone Fork

4.) In the terminal on your local, use the URL you just copied to clone your Fork of this program's repository. Make sure that you are in a directory where you are okay storing this repository.

5.) Navigate into the repository, and create a file called test_git_file.txt. This will require some of the Unix commands that we have previously discussed.

6.) Add this file to the .git index (we're now back to using Git commands).

7.) Commit this file, and then push it to your forked copy of the repository on Github. Navigate to your forked version of the repository on Github, and check to make sure that the test_git_file.txt is present there.

8.) Back in your terminal on your local, remove test_git_file.txt from the repository.

9.) Add, commit, and push this change.

10.) Navigate back to your forked version of the repository on Github, where you should see that the test_git_file.txt is no longer there.

GitHub Homework

1.) Populate your GitHub profile. Add your name, a photo, your info, etc.

2.) Create 3 GitHub repositories for your three "dream" projects.

3.) Clone your three GitHub repos onto your local computer.

4.) Write a short README.md file for each project. Each README.md file should be written in Markdown so that it renders beautifully on GitHub.com. If you are new to writing Markdown, do this Markdown Tutorial.