Instructions for initializing a group Git project for the CI Lab.

GitInit.md

Initializing A Git Project

1. Write some code you want to make into a Git project.

2. Change to the root directory of the project.

    $ cd project
   

3. Initialize a Git repository.

    $ git init
   

4. (optional) Add a .gitignore file. This file contains regular expressions of files to ignore when committing. For example:

    $ echo "*~" > .gitignore
   

5. (optional) Add a README file. This will be displayed on the GitHub main project page.

6. Add all files in your project.

    $ git add .
   

7. Commit your project.

    $ git commit -m "Initialization of project"
   

8. Sign into GitHub and click New Repository.

9. Fill in project information and click Create Repository.

10. Add your GitHub repository as "origin". Note: use the location given to you by GitHub.

    $ git remote add origin [email protected]:username/projectname.git
    

11. Push your project to GitHub.

    $ git push origin master
    

12. Create a working branch to do your work on.

    $ git branch working
    $ git checkout working
    

13. Add contributors as others who may want to contribute. Go to the project's page on GitHub, click Admin, then Collaborators, and then add GitHub usernames.