Lab 02: Git & GitHub

Follow all the steps below for practice using GitHub. You an use your web browser to complete these steps, or the terminal if you like.

Tasks: Git/GitHub Basics

When setting up git CLI authentication, I suggest setting up personal access token, see Setup instructions. If you have this set up already, you do not need to change.

To test your understanding, go through these steps:

• Create a new repository in GitHub. You can do that by either cloning it to your local machine or by starting a Codespace instance from your new repository.
• Create at least three new files. The files can be in Markdown, plain text, or csv format.
• Use git add, git commit, and git push/pull to sync your changes with your GitHub repository.
• Edit at least two of the files and go through another git add, git commit, git push cycle.
• While you working in your repository, experiment with the git diff, git log and git status commands and observe how they report changes to files and status of your repository.

If you need some pointers, review lectures, the Git & GitHub practice section, or materials presented in Git Basics for Data Science and work through pages 0, 1, and 2.

Optional: For an additional challenge, create a new branch and add an extra file to it. Push the new branch to your GitHub repository.

Submit your work

Copy and paste the URL of the repository you created into Canvas.