Learn how to use GitHub for Beginners | GitHub Tutorial
In this video we talk about GitHub. This video will explain what is GitHub and how to build projects using GitHub. This GitHub tutorial video will cover everything you need to know to start working with GitHub.
GitHub makes it very easy for team member to collaborate on a project. Meaning different people in different parts of the world can work on the same project at the same time simultaneously using GitHub. GitHub can also be used to showcase your skills by posting interesting projects which can make you stand out from the crowd and a good GitHub profile can build a great impression on your potential employer to hire you.
GitHub is using Git as its version control system so you kind of need to know Git in order to work with GitHub. We can post projects on GitHub either in public or private mode using the free GitHub account.
Contents covered in this video are:
How to create a GitHub account.
How to create a GitHub repository.
How to push a local repository to GitHub repository
How to pull changes from GitHub remote repository to local repository
How to collaborate different team members on a project
How to clone a GitHub repository
Finally, we talk about the most interesting GitHub feature i.e. how to contribute to an open source project on GitHub.
As part of contributing to an open source project, we shall see how to fork a GitHub repository, create a pull request and then how the owner of the GitHub repository will merge changes requested through the pull request.
There are lot more that we can do in GitHub but this video should give you an introduction to GitHub and how to get started building your own project or contributing to someone else's project on GitHub.
