This tutorial explains about how to create account on GitHub.

 

GitHub

GitHub, Inc. is a US-based global company that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features. It is used as remote  git repository.

 

 

How to create account on GitHub ?

Follow the following steps to create account on GitHub

 

Step 1 – Signup for GitHub account

Click on the following link and put your details such as Username, Email and Password as follows:

https://github.com/

 

Step 2 –Rotate the Captcha to get the correct position of the Images and Click on Join Free plan

Step 3 – “Welcome to Github” screen will appear with following Questions.

Please select the appropriate answers for the each of the following questions.

 

 

 

Choose your Programming experience

 

 

You can select up to 3 options here.

 

Select the Languages, frameworks and industries you are interested in and then click on Complete Setup

 

As soon as you click on Complete setup a verification email will be sent to your registered email address.

 

Step 3 – Login to your registered email address and click on verification link. As soon as you click on the verify email address , it will take you to the following screen.

Click on Create a repository

 

 

Enter the following to create the project.

Repository Name : Name of your repository ( e.g devmyway )

Description – Put the description about this repository

Public/Private – Choose if your repository is Public or Private

Initiate this repository with README– Click on this checkbox

 

Click on Create Repository

 

 

Copy the HTTPS Link e.g  https://github.com/devmyway-user/devmyway.git

 

 

Step 4 – Clone GITHUB remote repository on local Machine.

 

To clone Remote Git Repository in your local,first install git in your local machine.

 

For Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt-get install git-all  -y

 

For Centos/RHEL/Amazon Linux

$ yum install git -y

 

For Windows

Read : How to Git Install on Ubuntu/Centos/AmazonLinux/Windows

 

Clone Git Hub repository to Local

Use the following command to clone the Git Remote Repository to local.

 

$ git clone https://github.com/devmyway-user/devmyway.git

Cloning into ‘devmyway’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 3, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.

 

The above command will clone the remote git repository ( devmyway) on your local machine.

 

Run the following command to see the content inside the devmyway repository.

 

$ ls -al devmyway

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 chandan chandan 4096 Jun 17 10:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 44 chandan chandan 4096 Jun 17 10:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 chandan chandan 4096 Jun 17 10:15 .git
-rw-r-r- 1 chandan chandan 1 Jun 17 10:15 README.md

 

Note : A .git file will be created as soon as you run git clone or initialize git using git init command in your local git repository. You can also see README.md file is pulled from remote git repository to your local repository.

Now you can work on your local git repository, and push your changes to remote repository . You can also pull the latest changes from your remote repository that is done by your colleagues .

For mote about Git  read About :  Git tutorial for beginners

 

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