GitHub - Collaboration

Session 09

Starts at:

June 03 2024 (12:15 pm)

Slides Chapter: GitHub - Advanced Quiz

This session

In this session, you will complete the following tasks:

  1. Complete the chapter “GitHub - Advanced” in the Version Control Book.
  2. Complete the exercises for the recipes project.
  3. Complete the quiz.

As always:

  1. Try out the commands in the chapter and play around with them.
  2. Check whether you have achieved the learning objectives.

recipes project

At the end of this session, you should have accomplished the following:

  1. Successfully collaborated on a shared project by adding and committing changes to a partner’s repository.
  2. Created and reviewed a pull request to integrate new content from a partner.

Learning objectives

💡 You can fork a repository.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a Pull Request.
💡 You can create a Pull Request from a forked repository.
💡 You know how to collaborate using the popular workflow strategy GitHub flow.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a README file.
💡 You can protect your main branch.

Email

Dear course participants,

This is a reminder to help you prepare for our upcoming seminar session on Monday by completing the exercises from the last sessions (if you have not done so yet):

  1. Please ensure that you have uploaded (“pushed”) your recipes repository to GitHub before our next session on Monday.

  2. Files that your repository should include are a recipe.qmd file (see exercise in Session 06 on “Quarto”), a .gitignore file (see exercise in Session 04 on “Basic Git workflow”) and a README.md file (see exercise in Session 08 on “GitHub - Intro”). While this is not mandatory, please try to remove any unnecessary files or clutter, like empty .txt files from your repository. You can delete files directly on GitHub by clicking on the three dots next to the directory or file and selecting “Delete file,” then commit the changes. This effectively runs git add and git commit on GitHub.

If you encounter any issues or have any questions, feel free to contact us via email.

We look forward to seeing you next Monday!

Best wishes,

Lennart Wittkuhn (Instructor) & Konrad Pagenstedt (Teaching Assistant)

Slides

To print the slides to PDF, do the following:

  1. Toggle into Print View using the E key (or using the Navigation Menu).
  2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
  3. Change the Destination setting to Save as PDF.
  4. Change the Layout to Landscape.
  5. Change the Margins to None.
  6. Enable the Background graphics option.
  7. Click Save.

Note: This feature has been confirmed to work in Google Chrome, Chromium as well as in Firefox.

Here’s what the Chrome print dialog would look like with these settings enabled:

Screenshot of Chrome print dialog with the first slide/page of 43 shown on the left, and print options on the right. The Destination print option has Save as PDF selected.

These instructions were copied from the Quarto documentation (MIT License) and slightly modified.