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GitHub Workflow Activity

v3.0.0

Participants, in teams of 2-3, work through a series of scenarios to learn how to contribute to open-source projects using a common workflow.

Required Resources

  • Participants: 2+
  • Each participant needs
    • A computer with
      • git installed and configured
      • A plaintext editor
      • A command-line interface
      • A browser
      • A working Internet connection with ports open for SSH, HTTPS, and HTTP
    • A GitHub account

Required Knowledge and Skills

Participants must be able to:

  • Local git repository operations:
    • Stage changes
    • Commit changes
    • Check the status of the repository
  • Command-line operations:
    • Change working directory (cd)
  • Filesystem operations:
    • Create, rename, move, and delete directories and files
  • Plaintext editor operations:
    • Edit and save a file

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Use a common workflow to contribute code to a project on GitHub
    • Prepare a fork and local repository to contribute changes to upstream project on GitHub
      • Fork a project on GitHub
      • Clone a local repository from a remote repository
      • Connect local repository to remote repository
    • Prepare a branch to work on a feature or bug
      • Create a local branch
      • Push a local branch to a remote
    • Issue a pull-request on GitHub
    • Update repository with changes from upstream
      • Pull upstream changes into local repository
      • Merge master into feature branch
      • Resolve conflicts
    • Push changes to remote

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Contributing to this project

Please read our Code of Conduct and Contributing Guide.

Copyright and Licensing

Copyright 2018 Darci Burdge and Stoney Jackson SOME RIGHTS RESERVED

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ .

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