Github Tutorial For Beginners - Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Source Control Basics

Github Tutorial For Beginners - learn Github for Mac or Github for windows
If you've been wanting to learn Github, now's the perfect time! Github is seen as a big requirement by most employers these days and is very critical to business workflow. This Github tutorial will cover the basics of how to use Github and the command line.

Lesson #2: Pull requests, Branching merging

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[inponderland]

for those wondering about esc + :wq at the end... if you don't write a message for your commit, it puts you into an editor called VI (visual editor). This editor is used in UNIX and has a lot of different shorthand codes, but ESC gets you out of 'writing mode' and then ':wq' is telling the program to 'write + quit' which is basically like 'Save & Quit'.

[ErickG]

The year is currently 2020 - and your advice was timeless and appreciated.

[Tessitura]

"A lot of people avoid the command line like the plague. Seeing that black screen just freaks them out". Thought I was the only one. This guy gets me. SUBSCRIBE! 😂

[overjuiced]

One of the best tutorials I've seen. Github was a mystery to me until today.

[JohnMutch]

This is a great resource for newbie's like myself. I got up and starter in about 30 minutes. Did install, added repository and created a new project. Very worth the time to view this video. Great Job!

[PeachBoiASMR]

*I have spent years not knowing how to properly use github and seeing this video has literally enlightened me. The powerful wave of knowledge hit me like a punch in the face.*

[andrezinho]

"Seeing a black screen freaks them out"

Yes!

[weatherton]

5 minutes in: "Command line is not hard, it's about five commands"
14 minutes in: "There's about ten commands in total"
*displays list of commands* List is 21 commands long and is titled "most commonly used commands"
I just checked a Git Reference and it showed at least 50 commands
hmmm.

[drikting]

Most guides just show the commands. But yours went into showing how two persons/sessions can work in a practical scenario. Well done, and for putting in the extra effort to setup with a well-thought lesson plan again!

[drillzmcprostrat]

Important note: On Windows at least, 'git' is not a recognized internal or external command on cmd.exe.
You have to go to the GitHub application, click the gear in the upper-right corner of the window and click "Open in Git Shell" or something involving Git Shell. That's the program that will actually work with git commands.

[Butterism]

Thank You!!! I was so frustrated trying to figure this out that I had tears in my eyes. I found this right before I was going to give up. Now it's a half hour break then back to work.

[PalermoDeschamps]

Best tutorial I've seen on YouTube. Instead of just explaining what git is, you actually show us how git works when working with other people. Thankyou!

[ashryver]

This is the only git tutorial that made me easily understood! Thank you!

[Dryer_Safe]

Thanks for the tutorial, finally clarified what github is about.
My contribution:
Escape Column to enter command. Then Write Quit.
<Esc>:wq
or <Esc>:q to quit without saving.
Standard linux VI editor commands.

[florence]

This was the BEST tutorial on Git/Github I've ever seen! Thank you for making me finally understand what I have to do.

[MohamedIbrahim-imqs]

If you are wondering what this "<ESC>:wq" at 17:25 is all about you can do a search for "vi text editor" or "vim text editor".


But here's a brief description of what's happening:

- When you press the <ESC> key it puts the editor in the "normal" mode, where you can enter commands (rather than text).
- Commands start with a colon ":".
- The command "w<Enter>" stands for "write", which simply saves your changes.
- The command "q<Enter>" stands for "quit", which simply quits the editor.
- You can combine some commands together. Therefore, "<ESC>:wq<Enter>" simply means save any changes and quit the editor.


If the editor is in "normal" mode and you want to add text, you press "i", which puts the editor in "insert" mode. In the video he pressed "i" at 18:10 to enter text (notice the "-- INSERT --" at the bottom of the window that indicates the editor is in "insert" mode). Once he finished editing his text he pressed <ESC>:wq<Enter> to save and quit the editor at 18:25.

[kazenohito]

6:13 "Yes the dreaded command line." **Dun dun dun

[camsolo]

Tldr/summary:
git pull
git add . or -A or file.extension
git commit -m "did x change"
git push
===
Finished!
For commit can type only "git commit"(without quotations) and it will let you type a long message. To escape the message type esc:wq and you will exit the long message part.

For conflicts just edit the conflicting part with the === in the conflicting file.
Thanks for a great video.

[ChrisHornberger]

FWIW, this was a great quick-start tutorial. As someone who's been coding a few decades now, and just wanted a quick primer on how to apply what I already know about source control to getting started with GIT, this was perfect. For those nay-saying the video, please step back and realize it's a quick-start for the most-common-denominator set. That's all it's meant to be, and in that it does a very good job. 

[MeshTheSnake]

greatest tutorial ever! I went from knowing not a single thing about git and github to now only wanting to learn even more. thank you!