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GitHub study materials

In this repo, you find help material about GitHub I collected for Business College Helsinki Full-Stack Developer program students.

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Git for All Platforms

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Glossary

  • git: an open-source, distributed version control system

  • GitHub: a platform for hosting and collaborating on Git repositories

  • commit: a Git object, a snapshot of your entire repository compressed into an SHA (a unique commitID (a.k.a. the "SHA" or "hash"))

  • branch: a "branch" is a line of development. A pointer to a commit

  • clone: a local version of a repository, including all commits and branches

  • remote: a common repository on GitHub that all team members use to exchange their changes

  • fork: a copy of a repository on GitHub owned by a different user

  • fetch: downloads commits, files, and refs from a remote repository into your local repo.

  • pull: fetch and download content from a remote repository and immediately update the local repository to match that content.

  • pull request: a place to compare and discuss the differences introduced on a branch with reviews, comments, integrated tests, and more

  • merge: joining two or more commit histories

  • HEAD: representing your current working directory, the HEAD pointer can be moved to different branches, tags, or commits when using git checkout. A pointer to the most recent commit on the current branch.

  • Origin: the default name for a remote repository

  • Local repository: another term for where you keep your copy of a Git repository on your workstation

  • Remote repository a secondary copy of a Git repository where you push changes for collaboration or backup

See more: GitHub glossary

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