Git is a version control system that Linux hackers use. If you don’t know git, you probably want to start by reading the Pro Git Book.
Remember to config your git settings on your developing machine, either physical or virtual, properly. Create (or edit) the file ~/.gitconfig with the following content
[user]
name = YOUR_NAME_HERE
email = YOUR_EMAIL_HERE
[color]
diff = auto
status = auto
branch = auto
[push]
default = matching
While there are a number of different Git-based systems, you will be using Github Classroom for this course. Make sure you have a registered Github account. If you are new to Github, please check out the getting started guide. There is also ssh setup guide for you to enable ssh access to Github.
Also please fill in the Google Form to declare your Github user name and UNI.
Your source code will be stored at github.com/W4118/f23-hmwkN-UserName as a private repository. Only you or your group members are allowed to push/pull from the repository. The sample code repository is at github.com/W4118/f23-template-hmwkN. Your repository will be cloned from the sample repository initially, and you will be working on that repository afterwards. Be careful not to overwrite those initial commits made by professors or TAs in your repository. Otherwise it would be much harder for TAs to grade your homework.
Each assignment will be published as a Github Classroom invitation link. Click “Accept Assignment” to setup your own copy of the assignment. Please wait until Github finishes the initialization process. You may visit W4118 Organization to see all the sample codes and your repositories.
For example, click on the link below to be invited to the first assignment:
Then, you will need to clone your homework repository locally to start working on it:
$ git clone git@github.com:W4118/f23-hmwkN-UserName.git
Initialized empty Git repository in f23-hmwkN-UserName/.git/
Receiving objects: 100% (x/x), done.
remote: Counting objects: x, done.
remote: Total x (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Your typical workflow:
$ git diff # see what you've changed
$ git add file1 file2
$ git diff --cached # see what you are about to commit
$ git commit # explain what you did on file1 file2
A few commits later
$ git push # upload your changes on the repository
Counting objects: x, done.
Delta compression using up to x threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (x/x), done.
Writing objects: 100% (x/x), x bytes, done.
Total x (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git+ssh://xxx
xxxxxxx..xxxxxxx master -> master
If git asks you for a password whenever you try to do a clone/push/pull/fetch then you need to make sure that your ~/.ssh/ directory looks like this:
$ ls -lh ~/.ssh
-rw------- 1 root root 672 Aug 17 2007 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 604 Aug 17 2007 id_rsa.pub
If you already use ssh keys for logging into other servers or git repositories, you can save the private/public keypair that was created for you as ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and create the file ~/.ssh/config like this:
$ touch ~/.ssh/config
$ chmod 600
Then open the file and input this data:
Host github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
User git
Checking your submissions
Once you have submitted your homework we strongly recommend that your re-clone the submission to your machine to check that what we have received is in fact what you intended to submit. Note: You can always submit again until the deadline. After the deadline, you will not be able to push to the git repository.
The procedure for doing so would be the following:
$ pushd /tmp
$ git clone git@github.com:W4118/f23-hmwkN-UserName.git
$ cd f23-hmwkN-UserName
# ... check contents of directory and test aginst your test cases
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf f23-hmwkN-UserName
$ popd