The Git tutorial

We FOSS — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:34:58 +0000

Git tutorial

What is Git?

Git is a free and open source software for version control, that is designed to handle all kinds of projects.

Advantages of Git

For example, let's consider people A and B working on the same project. Let's assume they are editing the same file.

If A adds some text, and B replaces some text, a problem arises. The same file is being edited by 2 people, and there arrives a clash. The text replaced by B could be one of the dependencies of A's text.

Git was introduced into this world, to solve this problem. One can edit the file, the other can also do the same, but these kinds of errors won't occur.

Installing Git

You can install git via checking out this URL: https://git-scm.com/downloads, and then selecting your operating system. Alternatively,

If your're using Chocolatey in Windows, open Powershell as admin and run this: choco install git -y
If you're using Linux, run this (according to your distro):

  sudo apt install git -y (Debian based)
  sudo pacman -Sy git (Arch based)
  sudo yum install git -y (RedHat/Fedora based)

If you're using macOS with HomeBrew installed, use this command: brew install git

And now, you're ready to use Git.

Using Git

Using Git via the GUI offered by GitHub seems easier, but learning the command line is even more easier and it helps you a lot.

Here's how you can use Git with the command line:

git clone url_of_repo (To clone the repository into your system)
git checkout branch_name
(to change to a separate branch)
git checkout -b branch_name (to create a new branch and switch to it)
You can create a file after changing the branch, or make any changes to already existing files.
After editing/modifying the files, you have to push the changes to GitHub.

Note: For the following commands to work, you must be inside that prticular folder. Else, it won't work :)

Use "git add ." ( Here, period is used to push all the files) or git add -A (same purpose)
git commit -m your_message (to )
git push (to push your changes to the repository)

This might not work during a few situations, so you can use the command which is recommended by Git to use in the terminal.

And, those are the basic methods to use Git. If you master these 5 commands, you won't be needing the GUI to manage files via GitHub.

Good Luck!

Credits:

Authors: Yash Wankhade and Abhay Anand

Editors: Tushar Verma, Pranav and Rasheedah

Publisher: Pranav P

Link Trim

We FOSS — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:20:44 +0000

Introduction

If you’re trying to share a very useful info with your growing audience, then you don’t want the links to those golden contents to upstage your efforts! Link Trim by The We FOSS Team is a Project that helps you to customize, as well as shorten a very long URL.

The objective of our project

The main objective of our project is, support the open-source community, and also train code newbies on how to contribute to the open-source community while training them for the future.

The objective of Link Trim is, to shorten the URL according to your preference.

For example, your Facebook bio supports only 100 characters. In case of Twitter, a single tweet can only hold 280 characters and a thread holds only 25 tweets in a row. By using our service, with shorter links and more space, you can add more info about what you're sharing in the social media.

What we learnt

We had a lot of professionals, but there were also newbies joining our project.

The knowledge and guidance of the professionals helped the newbies learn a lot of things like managing HTML, formatting CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, using Git, etc.

Our contributors

Handling the Front-End interface, which is built with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript, is done by:

Rasheedah Obabunmi - @STEMInstructor_
Bambam - @bambam08N
Abhay Anand - @codo__sapien
Aditi - @shreeAditi26
Suleiman Mohammed - @The_CybersecGuy
Yash Wankhade - @CodingIsCoool
Divya Jain - @imdivi_jain

The Back-End which we are currently building with Node JS, Express JS, Mongo DB and Heroku is being handled by:

Tushar Verma - @tshrvrm
Kunal Agarwal - @kunalagarwal503
Fawaz Sullia - @realfawazsullia
Varun Singh - @read__its
Muqeet Zama Khan @muqeet_zama
Bilal Umrani

The Middle Ware, which is done with Django is handled by Ankit - @i_ankitk. The Project Documentation and Social Media Management is handled by Pranav - @ppranav06.

An Article by Pranav, the Team Lead of Middle-ware.

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