Github for Windows Usage Introduction

Git has become so popular that even CodePlex now has the main push to Git. GitHub is full of high-quality open source projects, such as Ruby on rails,cocos2d and so on. For programmers accustomed to Windows GUI, the use of GitHub takes time and patience, but the recent GitHub release of GitHub for Windows greatly reduces the cost of learning and the difficulty of using it, and he is even simpler than SVN, okay, you don't believe, Let's take a step-by-step side:

1. Download github for Windows and install it without saying

2. Login, install and open GitHub and log in with your GitHub account.

Note that Github for Windows will help you create SSH keys, and you should be able to open the email message to help you create SSH key, which saves a lot of

3. Create a warehouse. Click on the "+add" button above to create a new warehouse and enter the relevant information:

4. The new warehouse has not been actually submitted to the local warehouse

As this is just a new modification, GitHub simplifies some of the procedures, and for any modifications, just add comments to the local repository and then submit to the remote repository, so we add a comment:

After each comment is added, it is equivalent to submitting a version to the local repository, after which you can select a version to submit to a remote repository.

5. At this point, we can publish a warehouse.

Publish after the button will become in sync text, indicating that the subsequent modification of the commit is synchronous, this time you go to your GitHub to see should be more than a warehouse

6. The Add Project Warehouse is saved locally in a folder,

Github for Windows monitors this folder, any changes will be seen in the repository, then add comments like above to submit the changes to the local repository, where we open the Repository directory and add an item to it:

7. Submit the changes to the local warehouse

Back to GitHub for Windows, you can already see the item you just added, and, again, commit the comment to the local repository:

8. Finally, click Sync to submit the local repository to GITHUB7. Participate in collaborative development of open source projects:

GitHub now has a deep support for Windows developers, and now every open source project in GitHub has a "Clone in Windows" button, and we can Clone any open source project that we are interested in and then modify it to participate in the development of open source projects. After clicking this button, the browser will ask to open Github for Windows and download the project locally, creating a new local repository:

Summary: GitHub for Windows simplifies some concepts and operations, and almost all of the main operations are done through a graphical interface that basically completes everyday writing. These major simplifications include: 1. Simplifies push to remote repository to a sync button of 2. Commit to a local warehouse simplify to add comments to only a few column modifications and also include branch building and management, which you can explore, in short, GitHub for Windows is really a great tool.

Github for Windows Usage Introduction