commit.md

Following on from branching (in other words, you want to do this exercise on you <your_github_username>-asks-a-question branch):

1. Write a question

In the student-questions directory, write a file named <your_github_username>-workshop-question.md and ask a question in that file!

Donal says: The file suffix .md stands for Markdown. The writing-on-github page describes how to use Markdown including GitHub flavoured Markdown.

2. Get the status of the file

git status

Will show that the file is "untracked".

If you want to just see the short version of the git status, run this:

git status -s

3. View the file differences

git diff

Donal asks: What will this show? Why?

4. Add file to staging

git add student-questions/<your_github_username>-workshop-question.md

Then:

git status

Will show that the file is "staged".

5. View the file differences

git diff --staged

This will show you the patch view of the differences between the staged files and what was in the last commit.

6. Commit your question file

git commit -m "add question file"

Then:

git status

Will show that the file is "committed".

Donal says: Your file has been committed but only to your local repository.

7. Push your question file to GitHub

git push origin <your_github_username>-asks-a-question