Exercise

• Create a directory and in it create a –bare repository, or if you have a remote sandbox repository use that.

• Clone it to ‘local’ directory (joe)

• Add 2 files

• Push them to the main repository.

• Clone the repository to another location on the hard-disk (mary)

• Make some changes: create a file your_git_user.txt

• push the changes to the server

• Clone a repository

• Create local develop branch tracking the remote develop branch

• Create local branch feature/USERNAME

• Make some changes

• Push the changes to the remote feature/USERNAME branch

• Fetch the remote to see if other have been doing anything

Some commands you might need

$ git clone URL
$ git checkout -b local_name
$ git checkout -b local_name origin/remote_name
$ git fetch
$ git push
$ git merge origin/remote_name