Feb 7, 2018
Workshop: Git and GitHub (with Pictures)
About this workshop
I prepared this workshop for artists working with code. This is part 1. It concentrates on explaining the concept of git and GitHub as well as everything you need to know to use it alone –
Part 2 then introduces the basics of collaborative prjects on GitHub.
This is the plan
- What is git? (and what is GitHub?)
- Make a GitHub account
- Work on your own project
- Use someone else’s code
- How to NOT expose sensitive data
- Your project broke? Go back to an old version
What is git? (and what is GitHub?)
The whole git and GitHub thing has something to do with saving files or, slightly more precisely, “version control”. But what does that mean? Here is what “normal saving” might be drawn as:
"Normal saving" aka overwriting