Hi guys,

Im new to github and Im trying to get my html5 player project on there - can anyone help me?

They have pretty extensive tutorials on the giyhub site, but in short you just need a command line interface and some basic knowledge of GIT to push up your project to Github.

 

https://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git is a good place to learn some of the basics of GIT

If that helps, you can watch this video

from our other thread http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/79603-lets-build-a-word-game-together-;/page-2?do=findComment&comment=479985

where @@citypaul explains what is version control and how to work with Git. It's a bit long, but it covers quite a lot.

 

Edit: You need to have Git and Source Tree installed (GUI client for GIT - more info in the other thread )

http://git-scm.com/

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

Edited August 24, 201412 yr by teodora

What's your thought's on GUI's with Git citypaul -- I don't intend to use them myself as I already use the CLI for Git, but surely a point and click interface is going to slow down the workflow when compared to using the CLI.

I guess it could be useful to those who are unfamilair with the CLI, but it really is not that hard, my first experience of the CLI was to use GIT and that was a great stepping stone for me as now a year on I'm pretty comfortable using it and I would hate to have to go and use a GUI for this and things like Grunt, Bower and so on. It seems faster (and actually easier) than it would be to use a GUI.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts as in my opinion part of learning to be a developer should also be learning to use the CLI, at least to a basic level, mostly because it saves so much time.

Edited August 25, 201412 yr by rbrtsmith

Thanks for your detailed reply, I can see in those kind of situations why a gui could be beneficial. You're totally right about the CLI being way more intimidating to new users than what it really should be, once you have a few basic commands down and feel comfortable navigating around the system it's pretty nice. I think I learnt most just from Googling and trying out different commands, and once you learn the CLI you can deploy very quickly using both SSH and GIT. Think it took me no more than 3-4 minutues to take my local WordPress site and put it to the test server. don't wanna think how much time I'd have wasted trying to do it with FTP.