Working with GitHub Desktop

Name: Working with GitHub Desktop
Author: Dan Hanks Jr

In this chapter you’ll work with the GitHub Desktop. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the GUI that GitHub Desktop offers while adding projects and cloning…

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These lessons you will learn about adding a repository from a local computer, adding a project to GitHub, cloning repositories from GitHub, and cloning and forking repositories. Everyone should have it downloaded and installed already but we'll start right off by adding a repository from your local computer for the first lesson. So we have it installed, it connects you to your GitHub account. This is not connected to anything 'cause I just wanted to show you how you can connect from scratch here, if need be. So we're just gonna go up to the file menu, go to options, on accounts, and we can sign into our GitHub account right here by click and sign in, it's gonna wanna continue with the browser here to log in, pops up my browser, open GitHub desktop, and then there's my get test accounts, so we know we're all connected here. Okay, so we know we're all logged in here cuz it's found our repositories. If you wanna verify that real quick, you can go up the file, options where we were in accounts, and just make sure you're logged in. If you have multiple accounts, you can always sign out here, and log in with the proper one. We're good to go here. So we're going to create a new repository on our hard drive and as you can see of our very nicely gooey here, there is an option right here, where you can go up to file, and add a new repository. We're gonna stick with this and create a new repository. Name this any name you want, continue to my local path, so this is my tutorials folder that I've been working with the entire time, and I just put a new folder name here to match my repository name. It has always, I recommend to read me, hit ignore if you need to ignore certain files in your repo, sometimes you don't want your entire team to be pulling a file down for whatever reason might be a conflict or it's not neccesary or you just don't need it to be in everybody's repo, so you can tell to ignore those files with this or set to ignore that, and we don't need to worry about license. So we're just gonna create this repository, and see we got a current repository of desktop repo one here, that's looking good, and we're on the main branch, and publish this repository to GitHub if we want, there's nothing in it, so I'm not gonna bother publishing it, but you just hit publish and name it what you want with your description, and that'll send it right to your GitHub account. You can see how convenient get hub desktop makes things. Let's come out, wrap up this lesson on adding a repository from your local computer. Next will add a project from GitHub desktop to GitHub.

Beginner Provider : Dan Hanks Jr 4 Lessons · 12m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Urdu, Chinese

Course Description

In this chapter you’ll work with the GitHub Desktop. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the GUI that GitHub Desktop offers while adding projects and cloning and forking repositories.

What You'll Learn

Add a repository from your local computer to GitHub Desktop
Add a project to GitHub using GitHub Desktop
Clone repositories from GitHub through the GitHub Desktop GUI
Fork and clone repositories with GitHub Desktop
Work with repositories using the graphical interface GitHub Desktop offers

Key Takeaways

GitHub Desktop provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for working with GitHub.
You can add a repository from your local computer and add projects to GitHub using GitHub Desktop.
GitHub Desktop supports cloning repositories from GitHub.
The chapter covers both cloning and forking repositories.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this chapter cover?

This chapter covers working with GitHub Desktop, including adding a repository from your local computer, adding projects, and cloning and forking repositories using the GUI that GitHub Desktop offers.

What will I learn about working with GitHub Desktop?

You will learn how to take advantage of the GUI that GitHub Desktop offers while adding projects and cloning and forking repositories, including adding a repository from your local computer and working with repositories.

What lessons are included in this chapter?

The lessons are: Add a Repository from a Local Computer, Add a Project to GitHub, Cloning Repositories from GitHub, and Cloning and Forking Repositories.

What skills does this course relate to?

The course relates to skills including GitHub, Desktop Computing, Desktop Management, Desktop Environments, Desktop Sharing, and Linux Desktop Testing Project.