Git and GitHub

Get yourself right with Git.

Recommended free course: How to Use Git and GitHub

Commit

If you add any files to the directory, you’ll need to add them to tracking before you commit:

git add --all

You can’t really commit too much, so commit often (once per logical set of changes is a good rule of thumb). You will likely commit multiple times per hour.

See our Git commit message guidelines.

git commit -am "commit message here"

Push

A push will upload your local Git repo to its remote counterpart. You do not need to push every time you commit. Make a habit of pushing your repo at least once or twice each work day.

git push origin master

For reference

(no longer necessary with the latest process)

Create a local repo

Initialize the repo and make your first commit.

git init
git add --all
git commit -am "initial commit"

Create a remote repo in GitHub

  1. Navigate to https://github.com/bhdirect-ebooks
  2. Click the green “New” button
  3. Repository name:
    • Volume: 13-digit EPUB ISBN
    • Set: set short name
  4. Description: full title of the volume or set
  5. Select “Private”
  6. Click “Create repository”

Add the remote to the local repo and push

git remote add origin (the remote repo url)
git push origin master

Before using (only needed once)

  1. Create a .gitignore file in your home directory (\~/)
  2. Then, add a line with “.DS_Store” without the quotes to that file
  3. In your terminal, enter
git config --global core.excludesfile \~/.gitignore
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