GitHub
From Coder Merlin
Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder
Prerequisites[edit]
Background[edit]
While using git locally is a wonderful way to track our revisions and enable us to rollback to previous versions, in order to take full advantage of git we'll use GitHub. GitHub is a service where we can replicate (copy) our repository and collaborate with others.
Introduction[edit]
GitHub[edit]
Configuration[edit]
In order to use these commands with a remote repository, it's best to cache your credentials. On the command line, execute:
jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global credential.helper 'store --file ~/.git-credentials'
jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global credential.useHttpPath true
In order to squelch the warning that occurs while pushing, execute:
jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global push.default matching