GitHub Quick Start

GitHub Student

Overview

Version control

Branching

How to Save project to GitHub

Create a new repository at GitHub (don’t check box to create README) and copy URI

In Eclipse

Window -> Show View -> Git Repositories

Clone

Paste URI in Eclipse enter user name and password, Finish

Right click project -> Team -> Share Project images

Choose Use or create repository in parent folder of project, click Create Repository

Finish

?s = untracked (not staged or committed) Icons

Staged = about to be committed

Committed = "records changes to the repository", used in connection with your local repository

Repository = an on-disk data structure which stores metadata for a set of files and/or directory structure, one per project

Push = sends to a remote repository

Pull = a Fetch followed by a Merge

Fetch = gets from a remote repository

Merge = combines repositories

Window -> Show View -> Other -> Git -> Git Staging -> select all Unstaged Changes, drag to Staged Changes, and type Commit Message -> Commit and Push button

If no Commit and Push button, click Commit icon at top right of Git Staging view then right click the repository in the Git Repositories view and Push.

If that doesn’t work

Expand Repositories, Remotes, right click origin and click Configure Push

Ref mappings -> Add HEAD:refs/heads/master

Save and Push

If authentication error: