To get familiar with how GitHub works, we believe the best approach is simply to explore and try things out. So, here’s a small list of tasks to help you get started and understand GitHub’s core functionality:
If I’ve already added you as a collaborator, you should now see the project called Starting_Github.
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Clone the project to your local computer. ( You can do this with creating a new Project with version control and this link: https://github.com/HubiAtGit/Starting_Github.git )
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Create your own branch (for example, named after yourself) and switch to that branch.
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Open the file
template.qmdlocated in the Classmates folder. -
Save this file under the name of your GitHub account.
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Change the header of the file and save it again.
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Open your terminal and type:
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If everything looks good, stage, commit, and push your changes.
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Your new file should now be on GitHub—but it will only be visible in your branch!
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Go to GitHub and create a pull request to merge your file into the main branch.
To guide you through this process, you can either follow the tutorial at https://happygitwithr.com/ — or just play around! Nothing bad will happen! The Project is more or less empty 😊
Note: After cloning the project to your local drive, you can do all the steps (except step 9) directly from within the RStudio window.
