Building Software Better . . . One Programmer at a Time
An introduction to GitHub, which includes how to create new repositories, set up your account, push and pull, clone and send pull requests.
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Hi Eric,
Thanks so much for your video.
May I ask what is the difference between the public and private git clone download?
footscrayan
Absolutely. The private clone url is only available to those who are contributors to that repository, whether it be the owner of the repository, or people that they invite. All others can only access the public link if it's a public repository. If it's a private one, there won't even be a public clone url available.
I appreciate the feedback. I can eventually make another screencast that extends this one and shows a few more features, which would include adding and removing contributors if enough people want it.
Eric
Great introduction to Git (and more specifically GitHub).
Oh, and awesome intro and ending by the way! =)
Eric, what is the best workflow for a longstanding fork? That is, if you made a change to a project fork that may not be accepted right away but you want to keep updating from the source so you stay current… do you like to keep a separate remote branch and merge from the original source?
Maybe an advanced github question
Hey Brad, I'm not sure what the best practice is on that, but how you described is how I would do it.
Is there a downloadable version. I don't really have the bandwidth for streaming this.
TIA
I set up a link for direct download to the quicktime version. See the link right below the video.
I'll set these up for all videos if this works.
The download link is generating this:
AccessDeniedRequest has expiredDACBC24EECFD2D4B2009-09-28T16:13:48ZIDldaXY3Nwk6PNv1/qj58JsS/fnmgb5e4q0adwNLF4ZcRBQUtVv2qChTALu+8oxy2009-09-28T20:12:47Z
Ya.. it seems that the download link from Vimeo has a timeout. I am not sure how I can get these to you b/c I don't have a storage place for the videos. If you know of any that would like to be a sponsor, please send them my way.
I updated the download link so it should work fine now.
Very helpful, thanks!
Great Article or shall I say video tutorial?
, I personally is having issues with the GUI version maybe you can create a GUI version of the tutorial 
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Also quick question when you first set this up to work with github it puts a folder in your user profile. What lets say you have a folder inside your C drive that isn't under your profile?
C:folderwwwprojectIwantToUseWithGitHubAndGit
How do I set it up in a different location?
Eric, thanks for the screencast. I didn't know what fork and pull requests actually did. Now I want to go do some exciting stuff for someone else
Hi Eric,
Nice short and usefull, bravo.
ho hem…
where come from the joke at the end ?
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