GitHub Desktop Basics

Summary

Below you will find a collection of links to Simple Dev articles and the GitHub Desktop documentation teaching the basics of using GitHub Desktop, a desktop application that allows you to perform the most important Git functions through a GUI.

Articles

Introduction

• Why should I use GitHub Desktop?

Setup

• Install GitHub Desktop
• Initialize a Git repo

Local Actions

• Stage files
• Commit files
• View previous commits
• Create a branch
• Switch branches
• Merge branches
• Delete branch

Remote Actions

• Publish your repository on GitHub
• Push changes to your remote repo
• Get changes from your remote repo
• Clone remote repo locally

Undoing Things

• Discard changes to a file
• Undo your last commit

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