What is github and how to use it

Github is a plateform to share code with friends, colleagues or any unknows persons.

• it's also used to keep backup of our code.
• github is actually two types free and paid, if you want to keep our code privately then you need to pay , for free account the code will be public anyone can see it and can download the code.

How to start using GitHub for Linux

 

First thing first, you need to have the GitHub account if not then register yourself on Github ( https://github.com/ ).

commands for GitHub to create, update and download the repository

1- first install git on our Linux system if you don't have.

sudo apt-get install git

Configure git directory and pull the code from Github 

navigate to the working directory like cd /var/www/html/drupal-8
Run these below commands to initialize the git & configure it.

git init
git config --global user.name "raj" (here raj is my username)
git config --global user.email "dharmendrait08@gmail.com"

git remote add origin https://github.com/Dharmend/drupal-8 (It's my project URL hosted on Github)

That's it, Now the git is initialized on the directory...

git Command	Usage
git status	to know the file status of the git to local repository to github repository
drush add file_name/folder/.	to add the file to local git repository
git commit -m "any message for this commit"	commit the files to the staging area which you have changed
git push origin branch_name	push the code to the git repository
git checkout branch_name/file_name/directory	To get the code from git repository
git diff file_name	To get the difference of the code from local repository to git repository