2 years ago

In the last installment on how to use the open source git version control software, we talked about setting up git on a late-model Linux notebook. We went over creating the directory for the files, initializing the git environment to track the files and how to put the files in a repository.

We’ll end our discussion with a bit of how you get content out of GitHub and back down to your Linux notebook.

files, at the beginning will make it confusing when you try to do your first push of the local repository on your Linux notebook up to your newly created GitHub repository on the network.

Next time, I’ll delve into how I might put some of my real-world content into a repository and start to use git and GitHub to organize a project.