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Get started with a project

Learning outcomes of 'Get started with Git/GitHub'

Learners

  • are connected to the course repo
  • can commit
  • can write useful commit messages
  • know how a local vs remote repo work
  • can push/pull
  • can manage conflicts
  • can initiate new repo from (perhaps last day)

Instructor notes

Prerequisites are:

  • Git acoount
  • GitHub account
  • Git set up on computer

Not needed

  • Use of git before

Exercises

Present already

  • Clone the course project
    • clone course project and create folders
  • upload to github
  • start repo from existing repo (maybe last day instead)

New ones to address

Exercise x: merge conflicts

  • Create a new file with a unique name for your group, for example group_anna_and_sven.txt
  • All members of the team: get it on your local hard drive
How to get it on my local computer? 
Screenshots of VSCode (if not in course material)
  • One member add the line below at the end of that file and does a git push:
This is the last line by me, Sven
  • After this, without doing a git pull, the other group member(s) add a last line at the end (for example, the line shown below) and does a git push:
This is the last line by me, Anna
  • This person will get a merge conflict. How does the file look like?
Answer

The file will look similar to this:

<<<<<< HEAD
This is the last line by me, Sven
======
This is the last line by me, Anna
>>>>>> 123456789abcdef
  • How would you resolve this merge conflict?
Answering

Combining these two lines of text is up to taste. The text could be replaced by, for example:

This is the last line by us, Anna and Sven
  • Resolve the merge conflict and do a git push