Installing and using Git and GitHub on Ubuntu: A beginner's guide | Linux Today

Installing and using Git and GitHub on Ubuntu: A beginner’s guide

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Akshay Pai
Feb 22, 2018

This tutorial will be a quick setup guide for installing and using GitHub and how to perform its various functions of creating a repository locally, connecting this repo to the remote host that contains your project (where everyone can see), committing the changes and finally pushing all the content in the local system to GitHub.

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Akshay Pai

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