Any good guides on using github that come recommended?

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Are there any good guides, recommendations, tips for using github that come recommended?

Tia

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if you google “github tutorial” you get lots of links and courses, youtubes etc.

maybe this is as good a place to start as any:

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Google can be so hit and miss, same with bing, thats why I asked the question.

But thanks anyway.

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For git command line and GitHub specific stuff, chatGPT hasn’t steered me wrong.

It is also useful for helping you to set up a github SSH key for your PC so you don’t have to authenticate manually.

I think the biggest hurtle with git is learning how to bend your own practices to be compatible with git instead of trying to make git work how you think it ought to work, based on your current way of doing things. For example, before git, I used to make a lot of copies and archives of files to backup my work. But with git, that kind of practice is unnecessary and just clutters things up.

Setting up a proper .gitignore file is also important, so you only see the stuff you want to commit into your repo. E.G., you don’t need to commit OBJ files and other files that aren’t part of what’s required to build your project.

If you use .app files, you’d want to export to TXA so that you can track your changes. Git is really the most useful for text files. It can’t track changes for binaries. Rick Martin’s addon is really good for that, but it does cost money.

Visual Studio Code works pretty well as a git client, but lots of folks use Github Desktop. Both are free.

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