🎥 [Video Series] Let's learn git and GitHub together!

[goldieowner17]

Hey and welcome! This thread is for questions and answers related to the GitHub for Beginners blog series starring @LadyKerr.

What questions can we answer?

[GhostIrish]

Hello, i have question, how i enhanced my profile to attract attention?

[HPGredgar]

So that just took on the personification of predicting intelligence. . Man, you guys just blew my mind.

[mst-rajatmishra]

Use this link to create a ReadMe file, it'll guide you with templates provided https://profile-readme-generator.com/

great tip ! Thanks @SUDEEP-M-SHETTY!

Hey there
i used this first https://profile-readme-generator.com/ but i needed that animation of the contributions blocks one but its not getting generated please guide!
Thanks!
Rajat Mishra

@mst-rajatmishra Use the code below

<p align="center" style="width: 100%;">
   <img align="center" style="width: 100%;" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO-NAME/output/github-contribution-grid-snake-dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only" alt="YOUR-USERNAME" />
</p>

Replace YOUR-USERNAME and YOUR-REPO-NAME in it and by doing so you'll get that animation in the contribution block that you wanted

Hii Sudeep,
Thanks For The Great Tips, But I Am Doing It So Its Not Showing Anything Please, I Guess There's Something Wrong I Am Doing But Have No Idea, Can You Guide By Doing Fork In The ReadMe.md as some example In Profile MR-RAJATMISHRA profile.
Thank you

[SUDEEP-M-SHETTY]

Use this link to create a ReadMe file, it'll guide you with templates provided https://profile-readme-generator.com/

great tip ! Thanks @SUDEEP-M-SHETTY!

Hey there
i used this first https://profile-readme-generator.com/ but i needed that animation of the contributions blocks one but its not getting generated please guide!
Thanks!
Rajat Mishra

@mst-rajatmishra Use the code below

<p align="center" style="width: 100%;">
   <img align="center" style="width: 100%;" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO-NAME/output/github-contribution-grid-snake-dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only" alt="YOUR-USERNAME" />
</p>

Replace YOUR-USERNAME and YOUR-REPO-NAME in it and by doing so you'll get that animation in the contribution block that you wanted

Hii Sudeep, Thanks For The Great Tips, But I Am Doing It So Its Not Showing Anything Please, I Guess There's Something Wrong I Am Doing But Have No Idea, Can You Guide By Doing Fork In The ReadMe.md as some example In Profile MR-RAJATMISHRA profile. Thank you

Sure accept the pull request

[Moradi1212]

Thanks,
Helpful

[Drag0nHeart]

it so good,it teach our how to use the github,i'm thank goodless

[goldieowner17]

Hey there! You'll likely get the best response if you ask in a new thread in the New To GitHub category with this screenshot.

[Navya-1817]

Okay thanks!

[Azarartistnft]

Hey.am newbie,i dont know whats git repository code and whats the goal of github and how it works

[karuizawato]

Thank you for the help 😁

[goldieowner17]

Hey there! To get started, check out the Docs.

[karuizawato]

In the beginner's guide appears an image with git concepts that every new dev must know. What is rebasing?

[goldieowner17]

Hey @karuizawato! The best guide to discover rebasing is on the Docs.

[jookmarki]

In Git, rebasing is like editing a photo collage. It involves rearranging and layering snapshots (commits) onto a new background (base commit). This process creates a seamless sequence of snapshots in chronological order, making the project history easier to follow. However, just like editing photos, rebasing should be done carefully to avoid conflicts and ensure clarity in collaborative projects.

[Amit-Verma5262]

rebasing is a way to integrate changes from one branch into another by moving or reapplying commits on top of another base commit. Unlike merging, which combines branches while keeping the history intact, rebasing rewrites the commit history, making it appear as though the changes were developed in a linear sequence

[DaoyuanLi2816]

thanks

[Aboladale01]

[Aboladale01]

Thanks for your concern!
Yes my question is how can I input images and colors, also how to draw diagrams, know some tools do different tasks how to put them together?

[Brett2148]

    https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/126301#discussioncomment-9845282

    ?

[MasterInQuestion]

    Too hard to answer. Preferably no answer.

[clstal]

I understand how github is used for software development, but I was reading that some news organizations are using it for the iterative process of writing.

Example:
https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/decoding-bureaucracy-5b0c1411171 (describing use of chatgpt to summarize policies so they could be written about more easily - elsewhere, the journalists mention they use github to iteratively track prompts)

The focus of that article and other related links is the use of ai in newsrooms, not the use of github, but I'd love to look at repros, projects, developers, and even Readme docs used by folks using guthub to write and/or for tracking prompt modifications with results.

I think I can see how branches could be used for iterating on prompts or topics or whatever, but I can't imagine how this could be used over a large project with a group of authors, but I'm certain someone has done this.

Any suggestions, examples, or docs?

Thanks!

[maymunashah]

GitHub’s version-control features ensure that changes can be added to a project without overriding others' work, making it ideal not just for code but also for collaborative projects like managing lists of information, such as recipes, reading materials, or freely available programming books. so yes its also suitable for such applications you mentioned

[MasterInQuestion]

    My example of using GitHub to host literature:
    https://github.com/MasterInQuestion/Honorificabilitudinitatibus

[maymunashah]

Write your commit messages in a very clear and to the point way, focusing on what the commit does, not how. Write about major changed that were made. Start with a brief summary (50 characters or less), and follow with more detail if necessary. Use the imperative mood, like "Add" or "Fix," to describe what the commit does.

This is my take, hope it helps :)

[MasterInQuestion]

    For reference:
    https://github.com/MasterInQuestion/attach/commits
    https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2f2f73dc3ae3fadbf040eb73f217213b1c99ff39


    Also see: https://github.com/bugzilla/bugzilla/pull/157 (of real project)
    But the quality is less satisfying.

    Each commit once cast cannot be reversed. [1]
    So every edit must be extremely cautious.
[ [1]
    Mostly.
    There are some tricky hacks that could be used, to detach commits from the history:
    Which I've arranged some writing (but unfinished), to be posted later. ]

[Archiblog]

A brief introduction to Git for beginners | GitHub

Hi - I'm stuck on this point at 5:32 on the video:—

apple symbol folder ~/documents - What does that mean, please?

Thanks,
Norman Fellows
([email protected])

[MasterInQuestion]

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=ca&num=10&q=%22PS1%22+Unix

    "~/documents" is path; mostly current directory.
    "~/" stands for "$HOME" in Unix.
    [ Note in some shells the initial "~/" has to be unescaped (i.e. without quoting) to be parsed intended. ]

[MasterInQuestion]

    The "off-topic", "spam" tagging in this thread appears too aggressive:
    Sort of mistag, really: extra clicks required to get the proper context.

    The board's implementation further required "Sign in to view"... much inexplicable.

[Amit-Verma5262]

Great video series!! can we get videos regarding how version controll happens with github and something about github copilot how we can use it in our vs code?

[freedom-foundation]

I am a little past this quickstart but I haven't found any other place to ask a question about git.
What is the diff between a --soft and a blank which is --mixed reset? Does this from --soft: "leaves all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as git status would put it.'" mean soft leaves the adds indexed but before the adds were commit and without commit whereas --mixed would erase the index having adds ready to commit? This is how I gather it however the manpage hint's at being written by a thirdparty and having conflicting and scattered jargon makes it to where the user cannot communicate in a meaningful way about using the software. The difference here is touching the index but what does that mean in pragma: what does a git repo index handle? Isn't there some better way to find answers rather than Google advertisements or IRC wrong answers. See the snippet from the manpage below:

git reset [] []
This form resets the current branch head to and possibly
updates the index (resetting it to the tree of ) and the
working tree depending on . Before the operation, ORIG_HEAD
is set to the tip of the current branch. If is omitted,
defaults to --mixed. The must be one of the following:

       --soft
           Does not touch the index file or the working tree at all (but
           resets the head to <commit>, just like all modes do). This
           leaves all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as
           git status would put it.

       --mixed
           Resets the index but not the working tree (i.e., the changed
           files are preserved but not marked for commit) and reports
           what has not been updated. This is the default action.

           If -N is specified, removed paths are marked as intent-to-add
           (see git-add(1)).

[freedom-foundation]

I still don't quite get what --soft does. If it doesn't touch the index which is the cache ( track or/snd stage maybe? ) then it resets HEAD which point's at an old tree what is the use of having an index of the tree which was current I suppose if files were 'add' and tracked then wiping the index would wipe the files also from CWD? other than to prevent a delete it doesnt make sense to keep an index that doesn't apply to the tree. How would the index not instantly change or does it so that those adds are undone? I asked this question on the mailing list and got no pragmatic answer only bad rephrases of the manpages.