manual

Obtain the application

See the git essay here.

Required inputs

• domain email address
• server

Instruction set

• Obtain the GitHub account.
  • Create the GitHub account using the domain email address.
    • Set the GitHub username.
  • Create the GitHub personal access token (pat). Memorize or save the pat.
• Create a GitHub repository, hereinafter called the private tinyshop repository.
  • Set the repository name to tinyshop.
  • Set the repository to private.
  • Create the private tinyshop repository.
• Clone the private tinyshop repository.
  • Open a shell.
  • Execute git clone url, replacing url with the private tinyshop repository url: https://github.com/user/tinyshop.git, replacing user with the GitHub username.
    • Enter the Github username.
    • Enter the pat.
• Commit to the private tinyshop repository.
  • Execute cd tinyshop to change to the tinyshop directory. Hereinafter it is assumed the reader understands how to change directories.
  • Execute echo "domain tinyshop repository" > README.md, replacing domain with the domain, to declare the purpose of the repository.
  • Execute git add README.md to add README.md to the staging area.
  • Execute git commit -m "Create the README." to commit README.md to the repository.
• Execute git remote add tinyshop https://github.com/stefen-swain/tinyshop.git to set the tinyshop remote repository to https://github.com/stefen-swain/tinyshop.git, hereinafter called the public tinyshop repository.
• Execute git fetch tinyshop master to fetch the public tinyshop repository master branch.
• Execute git merge tinyshop/master --no-commit --allow-unrelated-histories to merge the public tinyshop repository with the private tinyshop repository, without committing.
• Execute git rm .gitignore to remove .gitignore from the staging area. .gitignore declares files to be ignored by git.
• Execute rm .gitignore to remove .gitignore from the working directory; this allows the push of configuration files to the private tinyshop repository.
• Execute git commit -m "Merge public tinyshop repository." to commit the merged files to the repository.