Git commands

Git is how the team shares code without overwriting each other. You only need these five moves. Run them in the VS Code terminal, one line at a time.

1. 1

   Once, on a new laptop

   Tells Git whose name goes on the commits. Do this before anything else.

   git config --global user.name "Your Name"git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

2. 2

   Get the team's code

   Clone downloads the repository into a folder. You do this once per repo.

   git clone https://github.com/YOUR-TEAM/training-repo.gitcd training-repo

3. 3

   Start this week's work

   Start from the week's starter branch, then make your own branch so your work never lands on someone else's.

   git checkout week3-startergit checkout -b yourname-week3

4. 4

   Save and share it

   Add stages your changes, commit saves them with a message, push sends them to GitHub. Then open a pull request on GitHub.

   git add .git commit -m "Add Intake class with run, reverse, and stop"git push -u origin yourname-week3

5. 5

   Get back to the main branch

   Once your pull request is merged, come back to main and pull the latest code.

   git checkout maingit pull

Write a commit message someone can read

Say what changed, not that something changed. Your reviewer reads this before they read the code.