Git Practice Activity for Lab2

A repo to play with the common git operations in and learn how to get working with markdown

Helpful links

• Cheat sheet - https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet
• Desktop app (optional, very useful for development) https://desktop.github.com/

Steps to complete for the practice activity

• Get social with github. Setup your account
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/elmsln and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/haxcms and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to https://github.com/elmsln/lrnwebcomponents and star / watch / fork the repo
• Go to this repo and star / watch / fork it -- https://github.com/btopro/lab2
• From your copy of the repo, edit the README.md file (this file) and fill out the things below the FILL THIS OUT line
• Use the commit message in order to indicate what you changed
• Then issue a pull request back against this repo
• https://oer.hax.psu.edu/bto108/sites/ist402/labs/git will have the non-messed with directions as we'll screw up this repo to see how version control works during class

FILL THINGS OUT BELOW THIS LINE AND DO IT IN MARKDOWN

Working definition of Git and what it's done for

Git is a version control platform that uses the command line to manipulate branches.

What do you think the top 3 reasons to use GitHub / GitLab are?

1. It's the most popular version control system out there.
2. The community is alive.
3. Github is very user-friendly.

What is a Pull Request?

A pull request is informing other users of a project about the changes you are pushing to a branch. Pull requests can become conversations discussing the changes once opened.

Links to relevent Github / git tutorials

• Github
• Help - Github
• YouTube

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