Version control

The purpose of this lab is to setup and get acquainted with the KTH github server and a common workflow associated with projects on github.

Consider the following scenario: you have contributions to make to an open-source project. It now contains a history of the example script from the first lecture. You may see it in the browser at the link 

https://gits-15.sys.kth.se/BB1000/git-2023-04-19

On git hosting sites such as github, gitlab, bitbucket you have two address forms for a repository

• http: https://gits-15.sys.kth.se/BB1000/git-2023-04-19
• ssh: git@gits-15.sys.kth.se:BB1000/git-2023-04-19

 On the KTH git server you can use the first form for browsing, but to download/upload content you have to use the second form, therefore you have to learn about ssh and install ssh-keys

Installation

* Creating and uploading an ssh key to the students KTH github: see instructions.

Assignment

* Open a webbrowser at the KTH github and create a fork in the web interface

* On your local machine: clone your fork, it will by default have the label origin

* Navigate to the project folder on the command line with "cd git-2023-04-19"

* Create and checkout a local branch with a name "devel"

* Include a line in the booklist.txt file with a book recommendation

* When done push the changes to your fork

* Make a pull request in the web interface

For more details consider lecture material or e.g. Github standard pull and request workflow

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