git assessment-control project

How to push your changes to GitHub 1 Cut your own branch from master locally: git checkout -b name_of_your_branch OR git switch -c name_of_your_branch

2 To verify that you created the branch (your currently branch will appear in green) git branch

3 Make changes in your branch

4 Run git status (Changed files will appear in red)

To see the difference, you can also use git diff

5 Add ALL your changes to staging (git index) git add .

6 To check that you added all the changes git status (Updated files will be shown in green)

7 To add your changes from stage to your branch, type git commit -m “message_text_explaining_what_was_modified"

8 You could recheck the commit history by typing git log

9 Switch to master to update code on master branch: git checkout master AND git pull

10 Switch to your branch again: git checkout name_of_your_branch

11 To make sure there won't be any conflicts in your future PR (Pull Request) run command git merge master

12 Run project to double-check if it is not broken.

13 If there are no conflicts, you can push to GitHub. Being on your branch, type git push origin branch name_of_your_branch

14 Create a PR (Pull Request) on GitHub. Repeat steps 1-13 for each complete task. Or repeat steps 3-12 to update an existing task's PR.