Question

Consider the workflow for you to begin development work on existing project with developers. The development work is being done in eclipse using Java, Junit and Git. The project is stored on a Github repository. You will be given access to the project in GitHub.

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What should you do, using Git, to begin work without disrupting the work of other team members? How can Git allow you to work on your own version of the master branch?

Answer 1

Github is a web-based platform used for version control. Git simplifies the process of working with other people and makes it easy to collaborate on projects. Team members can work on files and easily merge their changes in with the master branch of the project.

Introdution :

To be very crisp about it, GitHub is a file or code sharing service to collaborate with different people.

GitHub is a highly used software which is typically used for version control. It is helpful when more than just one person is working on a project. Say for example, a software developer team wants to build a website and everyone has to update their codes simultaneously while working on the project. In this case, Github helps them to build a centralized repository where everyone can upload, edit and manage the code files.

GitHub has various advantages but many people often have a doubt as to why not use dropbox or any cloud based system? Let me take the same example forward to answer this question. Say more than two software developers are working on the same file and they want to update it simultaneously. Unfortunately, the person who save the file first will get precedence over the others. While in Github, this is not the case. Github document the changes and reflect them in an organized manner to avoid any chaos between any of the files uploaded.
Therefore using GitHub centralized repository, it avoids all the confusion and working on the same code becomes very easy.

  

If you look at the image on the left, GitHub is a central repository and Git is a tool which allows you to create a local repository. Now people usually get confused between git and GitHub but its actually very different. Git is a version control tool that will allow you to perform all kinds of operations to fetch data from the central server or push data to it whereas GitHub is a core hosting platform for version control collaboration. GitHub is a company that allows you to host a central repository in a remote server.  

Now let me list down the ways in which GitHub makes git simple:

• GitHub provides you a beautiful visual interface which helps you to track or manage your version controlled projects locally.
• Once you register on GitHub, you can connect with social network and build a strong profile.

Steps to Push project on Github using eclipse :

Open Eclipse.

• Select Project which you want to push on github->rightclick.
• select Team->share Project->Git->Create repository->finish.(it will ask to login in Git account(popup).
• Right click again to Project->Team->commit. you are done