Summary
Below you will find a collection of tutorials teaching the basics of GitHub, the version control system.
Before You Start
These tutorials assume you have a basic understanding of the terminal and Git.
Exercises
The GitHub exercises to go along with these tutorials are included in our Git exercises repository on GitHub. You don’t have to know how to use GitHub to use them. Just click the green Code button in the corner and click the Download ZIP option. Then unzip the folder and open it in your text editor.
If you’ve already downloaded the Git exercises repository before for the Git Basics section, you can continue working on it.
Tutorials
Introduction
Why should I use GitHub?
Learn why you should use GitHub.
Sign up for GitHub
Learn how to sign up for GitHub.
GitHub Workflow
Create a remote repository
Learn how to create a remote repository on GitHub.
Clone a repository
git clone https://github.com/username/repo-name.gitAdd a remote repository to your project
git remote add origin https://github.com/username/repo-name.gitAdd a collaborator to a repository
Learn how to add a collaborator to your remote repository on GitHub.
Push changes to your remote repository
git push remote-repo-name branch-nameCreate a pull request
Learn how to create a pull request on GitHub.
Get changes from remote repository
git fetch originAdvanced workflow
Learn an advanced workflow you can use with Git and GitHub.
* work in progress
** coming soon