GitHub Tutorial 2: Contents

[maurolepore]

Outline

• Quickly review GitHub Tutorial 1.
• Get GitHub username of those who haven't yet contacted me via GitHub.
• Create, clone and fork repos
• Pull, push, download, upload content
• Time travel

Content

• Quickly review the last tutorial. Show:

  • forestgeo GitHub organization.
  • forestr package website.
  • rpubs.com/forestgeo.
  • twitter.com: search for #forestgeo #pr17.

• Get GitHub usernames

  • check whose invitation is pendent.
  • those who haven't yet contacted me via GitHub, ask to comment this issue.

• Download, upload single files.

• Create, delete, clone and fork repos

  • Open a new repo on GitHub, then clone it into a new RStudio project.
    • Update readme on RStudio, then push.
    • Update readme on GitHub, then pull.
  • Clone the preexisting gh2 repo from GitHub into an RStudio project.
    • Repeat as above.
  • Fork a repo form some other GitHub account into yours.
    • Repeat as above.
  • Add a remote to push a preexisting repo from RStudio into a new repository on GitHub.

• Time travel

  • See history
  • Revert file

If you get lost, don't worry. You can catch up later by asking me or reading:

• http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/git.html.
• http://happygitwithr.com/