Playground

New ARC members follow these instructions to learn GitHub and Linux command line

  • run git clone https://github.com/UND-ARC/Playground.git in your UDrive directory this will create a copy of the repository in your UDrive for you to use

  • create a directory in the local copy of the repository with your name as the title

  • create a new file in your personal directory (any file will do)

  • run git add .

  • then git commit -m "Write a descriptive message about what changes you are pushing"

  • finally git push origin master

  • this will push whatever changes you have made to GitHub

  • go through the "learning the shell" lessons from the following link to learn the Linux command line http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_learning_the_shell.php

To Update

After someone else has made changes, "pull" their changes down with: git pull origin master

There is a more in-depth guide on Git/GitHub located here