Git Tutorial - 22 - GitHub Watch Star and Fork Video Lecture | Version Control with Git - IT & Software

alright Milady's welcome back in in this
video what we're going to be doing is
we're going to be going over some
various buttons and options and before
we begin let's go ahead and get a little
sidetrack I actually tried to figure out
how to use a LinkedIn today I opened my
account like I don't know maybe a year
ago or something and the first time I
logged in I was like what the heck is
this I have no idea how to do anything
so I basically just uploaded picture and
did nothing but today I actually tried
to figure it out and like I I know
changed some settings and stuff so yeah
if you guys got one connect with me or
add me follow me whatever it's called I
don't know
alright I clearly don't know how to use
it yep go ahead and you know add me and
I'll figure it out
so back to this video the first thing I
want you guys to do is just go ahead in
any repo and click any single file and
that is because whenever you are looking
at one file I want to cover these
buttons right here raw blame and history
and a lot of people never even click
these or just glance over them and
they're actually pretty important so the
first one is this raw so whenever you
click this it gives you basically a raw
view of the file without any text
formatting now the reason that this is
actually handy is because if you guys
were ever working with some IDE like
this sometimes whenever you copy code
like this what's actually happening is
it's not just copying the text but if
you inspect this it's copying all the
HTML as well so whenever you are copying
code from github and pasting it into you
know one of your projects then always
copy the raw and then you're not going
to have any problems whatsoever now
another thing I want to mention is if
you guys ever make like these cool BOTS
or programs to download I don't know
maybe a shell script or something from
here make sure that you are downloading
it from this URL and not this one so the
reason is the same so if you tried to
download it from here then it's going to
get all the HTML and try to like execute
that program so again raaah is what you
want alright moving on the next
one is blame so blame is a cool way that
you can look at each line in a file and
see who edited each line so this was a
little script that I was working on and
I didn't add any comments because I was
just kind of lazy so another guy he went
through and he actually added comments
above each of these methods so that's
why you see that all right I have my
commits right here but then whatever he
added it has his little icon and said he
did this five days ago and it's just
cool way I don't know if you find like a
bug in a file that a lot of people
working on you know who to fire so so
there you go there's that and the last
one I want to talk to you guys about
right now is history so history pretty
obvious what it is it shows all the
commits and changes for this one file so
again this is the history for one file
and don't confuse it with your commits
which is basically the history for the
entire project or any of the files so
there's that now now that we got those
options taken care of let's go ahead and
click back on any repo so those were for
a single file but we also have these
buttons for your entire project or
repository so this is going to say watch
or unwatched
I'm watching this right now so that's
why I says that start or run star and
fork now actually let me go ahead and oh
let me find one of my friends instead of
my own because that's we're going to be
seeing most of the time all right what
do we got here all right so this is what
you're usually going to see whenever
you're just browsing around github
looking for projects it's going to say
watch by default because you probably
aren't going to be watching it so what
this means is basically if you click
this and hit watching it means that
you're basically like following this
project so that means whenever you click
this icon and it takes you back to I
don't even know this is called your
stream your home page whatever you're
going to get notifications whenever a
change is made to that project so again
watch is basically saying follow this
give me updates whenever something
changes on it and another thing is you
can actually change your notifications
to get them just in your github stream
whenever you go to this you can also
have a notification sent to your email
and you can either have notifications
turn them all off or turn both of those
on and you can take care of those in
your settings but cover all those
settings later now another thing is star
so a lot of people confuse watching star
star is basically just like saving
something or bookmarking it so I can go
ahead and say I'm going to start this
and then if I go back to my github
profile you can see all of the
repositories of project I have starred
or saved they're basically the same
thing so if you find something cool but
you don't want to have a notification
every single time then you can go ahead
and just bookmark it and there you go so
again watching it is get notifications
about it and star basically means
bookmark it or save it now fork we
already kind of talked about what that
means what this means is make a new
branch or copy of this project so we'll
say that what is this even a collection
of his configuration files I know why he
upload this but uh let's say that I
wanted all of these configuration files
to maybe I wanted to change something on
them well if you look at my github page
in my repositories I don't
have any of those yet so here are all my
repositories I don't have a copy of that
but what I can do is if I want a copy I
can just go ahead and press fork and I
don't know if you guys I don't know if
that text is going off the screen it
says fork your own copy in other words
it means make your own copy now since I
have organization it's going to say do
you want to put it on your organization
or just your personal account so I'm
just going to click mine just going to
say alright give us a few seconds to
copy all those files for you and yeah
there you go
so now if I go back to my profile in my
repositories I can see right here config
files so again this as you can tell by
the URL is a copy of my configuration
files so this is the copy that I can
actually you know edit the files to make
a bunch of changes maybe fix some bugs
whatever I want to do and also if I ever
want to like improve that project and I
want to submit it back to my friends
project I can just go ahead and make
whatever changes and hit new pull
request so that's the basics of how you
work with other people's projects and
not just make branches on your own so
ladies and gentleman that's all I have
for you for this tutorial I am probably
going to go ahead and try to figure out
LinkedIn some more and I've got some
pending invitations here nice all right
so yeah I think that's for watching I'll
see you next time