Using Remote Repository

Clone repository

Get the link to your repo on github and type

git clone link_to_your_repo_here

it will create a new folder with all the content of your remote repo.

Create branches

To create a local branch that tracks a branch on the remote repo:

 git checkout -b LocalName origin/remotebranchname

To cancel all the change and start fresh from the remote point of the branch:

git push origin HEAD --force

To create an upstream branch (origin is the name of the remote repo, branch the name of the branch)

git push -u origin local-branch
git push --set-upstream-to remote/branch

Having an upstream branch registered for a local branch will:

• tell git to show the relationship between the two branches in git status and git branch -v.

• directs git pull without arguments to pull from the upstream when the new branch is checked out.

To see all the current remote branch, type git remote -v . Best, use:

git fetch --all; git branch -vv

Pull, Commit, Push

After work on the local files is done, commit:

git add files_to_add
git commit -m "commit comment here"
git push origin

Before working on anything new, make sure to pull any change from the central repository

git pull origin

You can also just check if there are any changes by fetching the information. This will not affect any file, just let you know if some files on the remote repository are different than the files on your local machine

git fecth --all

git pull is essentially a git fetch immediately followed by a git merge

Commits

See the section on commits in the previous chapter.