GitHub 101: Essential Guide to Branching, Committing & Pull Requests 🚀

New to the coding world? New to using GitHub? This video is for you!

GitHub is an online software development platform. It's used for storing, tracking, and collaborating on software projects. Essentially...it's the place you store your code!

It’s used by individuals working on projects and almost every software company out there. Learning the ins and outs of GitHub is crucial to your software engineering career, and beyond. This video is a compilation of facts, tips and tricks that I've gathered working in the industry. I hope it helps! Please leave a comment below if I can help with any other GitHub/git topics.

This video walks through:
What is GitHub?
What is a GitHub repository?
Branching & the main branch
Committing
The Pull Request Workflow
A hands on example of opening a pull request
A bonus of everyday git best practices

Cloning a GitHub repository documentation link: docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-manag…


0:00 Intro: Video Overview
0:31 What is GitHub?
0:54 What is a GitHub Repository?
1:32 Branching & the main branch
2:02 Committing
2:21 Pull Request Workflow
2:58 Creating a pull request example
7:15 Bonus: Git Everyday Best Practices
8:42 Outro & thank you!