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# Let's Git it!

Section covering version control systems, github and basic git commands

## Objective:

1. Learn about the Git versioning control system
2. Practice git commands

### Slides

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Intro to Git
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### Quiz

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## Challenge

Follow this walkthrough to learn how to:

* [ ] Create a remote repository on Github
* [ ] Clone a repo to your local environment on C9
* [ ] Push changes from local to your remote repository

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## Useful Git Commands

| add changes                                  | commit changes                  | push to remote         |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| <p>git add \<filename></p><p> or </p>        | git commit -m "example message" | git push origin master |
| <p>git add . </p><p>(to add all changes)</p> |                                 |                        |

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Use the following command so that whenever you push, you can store your credentials and don't have to type them every single time you push.
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| store git credentials              |   |
| ---------------------------------- | - |
| git config credential.helper store |   |

{% hint style="warning" %}
Note that nothing will appear, however next time you push and are prompted to enter your credentials they will be stored and you will no longer be prompted for them.
{% endhint %}

Alternatively you can use the following set of commands :

```
git config --global user.name "your username"

git config --global user.password "your password"

git config --global user.email "your email(used for github)"
```