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All you need to know about GitHub as a beginner

Swastika Yadav on June 25, 2020

To know what is Git and what does it do. Kindly check out the last article What is Git, Why it is so important Before getting into commands, there...

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Fabrizio Meinero • Jun 25 '20

Git and Github are 2 different things.
How to use Git should actually be How to use GitHub

Swastika Yadav • Jun 25 '20 • Edited

It's written, "here GitHub is used".

ecyrbe • Jun 25 '20

Please, while writting an article is not an easy task, don't missinform beginners about what they need to know.
This article should be labelled "Beginner's guide to beginner's github workflow".

This article lacks a lot of basic content to even be called a beginner's guide. The previous one does not even cover the basic philosophy behind decentralized version control systems. So when writting an article and sharing your knowledge (witch is a good intention, no doubt about it), please don't make false promises.

Sloan the DEV Moderator • Jun 25 '20

Hey there,

It's one thing to offer constructive criticism, but this is too harsh. Check out the Code of Conduct and you'll see that DEV is trying to create an empathetic community where folks speak respectfully to each other.

Please keep this in mind going forward!

Swastika Yadav • Jun 26 '20

Not that I owe you an explanation but
The context of "All you need to know about Git" was completely different from what you took.

All the posts I write are only for newbies and I use tags accordingly. It's not possible to add "For beginners" in every title of the post, It's the understanding sometimes people get it and sometimes not.

There are many many people (proficient in coding/ beginners) who don't even know what git is forget about using it.

My only thought was to get people started with it and further they can explore so I didn't want them to get confused with terms like "Version Control". I wanted them to just put everything they do on a platform and make their work accessible to others.

Also, what I meant by the title is -What you need to know before starting on Git and I chose GitHub explain the steps. And many people got that right.

I might be wrong with my thought but there is no article in the world which can cover all the info and the titles are used to get people read your articles and get idea about the article. It doesn't explain everything about the article.

And just one small thing. It's "which" not "witch".
I ain't a witch😂 (kidding)

Have a good day!

Swastika Yadav • Jun 26 '20

@sloan
Thank you♥
Need more people like you♥

YA Sar • Mar 27 '22

Git and Github are two very different things, git is used on Local machine for VCS and is a command line tool, Github is web based and uses git's version control features so that they can be used collaboratively and is GUI.
Git is focused on version control and code sharing.
While Github is focused on centralized src code hosting.

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Sarfaraz Nawaz • Jun 27 '20

I dont intend to sound offensive or rude, but I've a humble request: please don't write low quality content and say "All you need to know about Git". Learn and USE it properly yourself first. Spend some years at least. There are FAR better articles on the internet, and so, please dont do desservice to the community by polluting the space. Read some books and good articles!