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Github Workshop

GitHub is a code hosting platform that facilitates version control and collaboration on projects. This tutorial covers essential GitHub features such as creating repositories, managing branches, making commits, and using Pull Requests. By the end of the tutorial, users will have created a project, managed branches, and successfully merged changes on GitHub.

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Github Workshop

GitHub is a code hosting platform that facilitates version control and collaboration on projects. This tutorial covers essential GitHub features such as creating repositories, managing branches, making commits, and using Pull Requests. By the end of the tutorial, users will have created a project, managed branches, and successfully merged changes on GitHub.

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Intro to Github

a code hosting platform

School of IT & Computing


American University of Nigeria
2025
What is GitHub?
• GitHub is a code hosting platform for version
control and collaboration. It lets you and others
work together on projects from anywhere.
• This tutorial teaches you GitHub essentials like
repositories, branches, commits, and Pull Requests.
You’ll create your own repository and learn
GitHub’s Pull Request workflow, a popular way to
create and review code.
Outline
• You’ll learn how to:
• Create and use a repository
• Start and manage a new branch
• Make changes to a file and push them to GitHub as
commits
• Open and merge a pull request
Step 1. Create a
Repository
• A repository is usually used to organize a single
project. Repositories can contain folders and files,
images, videos, spreadsheets, and data sets –
anything your project needs. We recommend
including a README, or a file with information
about your project. GitHub makes it easy to add
one at the same time you create your new
repository. It also offers other common options such
as a license file.
To create a new
repository
• In the upper right corner, next to your avatar or
identicon, click “+” and then select New repository.
• Name your repository.
• Write a short description.
• Select Initialize this repository with a README.
To create a new
repository
Step 2. Create a Branch
• Branching is the way to work on different versions
of a repository at one time.
• By default your repository has one branch named
master which is considered to be the definitive
branch. We use branches to experiment and make
edits before committing them to master.
To create a new branch
1. Go to your new repository.
2. Click the drop down at the top of the file list that
says branch: master.
3. Type a branch name, readme-edits, into the new
branch text box.
4. Select the blue Create branch box or hit “Enter”
on your keyboard.
Now you have two branches, master and readme-
edits. They look exactly the same, but not for long!
Next we’ll add our changes to the new branch.
To create a new branch
Step 3. Make and
commit changes
Now, you’re on the code view for your readme-edits
branch, which is a copy of master. Let’s make some
edits.
On GitHub, saved changes are called commits. Each
commit has an associated commit message, which is
a description explaining why a particular change was
made. Commit messages capture the history of your
changes, so other contributors can understand what
you’ve done and why.
Make and commit
changes
1. Click the README.md file.
2. Click the pencil icon in the upper right corner of
the file view to edit.
3. In the editor, write a bit about yourself.
4. Write a commit message that describes your
changes.
5. Click Commit changes button.
Make and commit
changes
Step 4. Open a Pull
Request
• Pull Requests are the heart of collaboration on
GitHub. When you open a pull request, you’re
proposing your changes and requesting that someone
review and pull in your contribution and merge them
into their branch.
• Pull requests show diffs, or differences, of the content
from both branches. The changes, additions, and
subtractions are shown in green and red.
Step 5. Merge your Pull
Request
• In this final step, it’s time to bring your changes
together – merging your readme-edits branch
into the master branch.

1. Click the green Merge pull request button to


merge the changes into master.
2. Click Confirm merge.
3. Go ahead and delete the branch, since its
changes have been incorporated, with the Delete
branch button in the purple box.
Step 5. Merge your Pull
Request
Celebrate!
• You’ve just learned to create a project and make a
pull request on GitHub!

Here’s what you accomplished in this session:


 Created an open source repository
 Started and managed a new branch
 Changed a file and committed those changes to
GitHub
 Opened and merged a Pull Request
Sources
• Github.com

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