Working with git locally

• Setting your identity

git config --global user.email "youremail"
git config --global user.name "your name"

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/bscse2001/live_session_demo.git

• Change directory to the repository

cd live_session_demo

• Create a new branch

git branch mynewbranch

• Checkout to the newly created branch

git checkout mynewbranch

• Create a new file with a unique name, preferably your roll number

echo this is my unique file > myfile

• Check your status by following command

git status

The above command shows the list of modification done on the current branch

• Add the newly created file to the staging

git add myfile

• Check your status by following command

git status

The above command shows the newly created file is in staging area

• Commit your change

git commit -m 'Enter your commit message here'

• Merge the current branch to the main branch
  • checkout to the main branch

git checkout main

• Execute ls command, you cannot see the newly created file because that is not in the current branch main
• Merging the new branch with main

git merge mynewbranch

• Now you can see your newly created file

• Push changes to the repository

git push

The above command will not work unless you are the owner or a contributor to the repository.

Forking and Pull back

• Fork this repository from github and create a forked repository for your own.
• Then you can work locally for the modification with above mentioned steps
• Finally, you can send a pull request to the source repository.