- To “push” means to upload and incorporate changes from a local repository to a remote copy of a repository.
- To do this, we use the command
git push - The command
git pushcan only be run successfully after we have added (withgit add) and committed (withgit commit) the changes that we want to upload.- If you do not add and commit changes to at least one file, you will see an error like the following:
error: src refspec main does not match any - To fix this error, run
git add NAME-OF-FILE-YOU-WANT-TO-TRACK, then ringit commit -m "A MEANINGFUL COMMIT MESSSAGE!"
- If you do not add and commit changes to at least one file, you will see an error like the following:
- Note that you can only push to remote repositories that you have been given access to collaborate with!
- For the following activity, make sure that you have accepted the invitation that GitHub sent to you registration email.
- In-class activity 2: Markdown and Pushing changes to a collaborative repo
- Display the contents of the README.md file from the local copy of the markdown-cheatsheet repo that you cloned on the previous activity. You can use the commands
nano,catorless - What is the difference between the file that you see on your terminal and the file as it is displayed on GitHub?
- Create a .txt file named
"Your-Name-markdown-commands.txt". Write down the differences that you note from the previous point. git addyour file and thengit commitwith a meaningful message.- Make sure that you have accepted the invite to collaborate on the markdown-cheatsheet repo.
- Run the command
git pushto upload the file you added and committed to the remote copy of the repo. - Go to the home of the repo on GitHub and look at your file there.
- Display the contents of the README.md file from the local copy of the markdown-cheatsheet repo that you cloned on the previous activity. You can use the commands
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Data Science Research Biology: An intro to programming with R for ecology and evolution
