Some basics about Git and GitHub.
Although there are many tutorials online, I still want to record some of them here for my own reference.
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git config --global user.name "Your Name Here"
git config --global user.email "your_email@youremail.com"
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NOTE: your_email@@youremail.com should be the noreply email address of your GitHub account.
Set the global .gitignore file:
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curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Global/macOS.gitignore -o ~/.gitignore
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Config git to use the global .gitignore file:
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git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
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visit gitignore to generate a .gitignore file for your project.
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git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git # https
git clone git@github.com:<username>/<repo-name>.git # SSH
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git branch <branch-name>
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git checkout <branch-name>
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git switch <branch-name>
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Create and switch to a new branch
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git checkout -b <branch-name>
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git switch -c <branch-name>
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First, switch to the branch you want to merge into, for example, main:
Then, merge the branch you want to merge into main, for example, dev:
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git branch -d <branch-name>
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If the branch has not been merged, use -D instead of -d:
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git branch -D <branch-name>
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Make sure you have generated an SSH key pair on your local machine.
See GitHub documents