Download Desktop Github
Rene Seiler
With GitHub Desktop, you can interact with GitHub using a GUI instead of the command line or a web browser. You can use GitHub Desktop to complete most Git commands from your desktop, such as pushing to, pulling from, and cloning remote repositories, attributing commits, and creating pull requests, with visual confirmation of changes.
This is absolutely not a major feature comparison. These are based on notes I took while getting used to switching between apps. They are things that are important specifically to me and my usage of the tool. I suspect the things you care about will be at least a little different.
Somehow on GitHub Desktop it just does what I want. If I pop out to make a super quick change to a file, when I come back, it has decided to leave the file staged. I imagine they have some kind of heuristic that makes the call there, as major changes seem to un-stage, but hey I like it.
We use GitHub actions for all sorts of stuff, notably testing and deployment. Similar to Git Hooks (except, ya know, in the cloud), some Actions prevent other actions. Like if a PR fails tests, it cannot be merged to the Main branch.
I was hoping this would be better in GitHub Desktop, but I actually find it more cumbersome. Partially because the branch-changing UI is buried within a menu instead of a side-panel. You have to open the menu, switch back to Main, Pull, open the menu, switch to the other branch, go to the small button at the way bottom of the menu offering to choose a branch to merge, click that, use a new modal to find the Main branch, and then merge them and push.
Ultimately keeping the branches/PRs in a dropdown menu as GitHub Desktop has it vs. the side panel like Tower has it is worse. Plus, Tower has drag-and-drop merging in the side panel. You can pick up a branch and drag it onto another one to merge, which is satisfying, or drag a branch to the BRANCHES header to cut a new branch using the one you are dragging as a base.
There are lots of things that both apps just do really nicely. I love being able to click on individual lines and discard them before committing. Like if I leave in an extra console.log() and just want to ditch that without having to go back to the editor to find it.
No matter what kind of developer you are, you'll need to know git. Git is version control that unites us all. We have a great deep-dive on git, taking you well beyond the basics and into stuff like git hooks, rebasing, and dealing with merge conflicts, which you'll be very glad you know.
Actually in my company team work the code and manage in secret private that do not publish update the code to the other person outside cloud.
I would love to know does tower about due for local ip to ip update team code just like github without cloud saving.
I'm trying to log into my bitbucket account via Github desktop to access a repo I am working on. But it doesn't accept my password. I use the same login I use for the bitbucket website and it doesn't work.
If you only need to clone/pull/push to repos, then an app password with permissions Repositories - Read and Repositories - Write should be enough. If the app is doing additional things, then additional permissions may be required (e.g. if there is an option to add your account, then Account - Read permissions may be required as well).
I check this regularly for releases. If you want the newest version, I suggest you check out github-desktop-git and modify the PKGBUILD to use the base repository, with the understanding that the application takes a significant amount of RAM to build.
We will practice creating a new repository using GitHub Desktop, committingchanges to it, browsing the changes, creating branches, and more.This is practically the same as the previous episode, but we introducesome new concepts:
In small groups it can be useful to do this side by side (in-person) or onelearner shares their screen (video) and others can ask questions and givesuggestions. In a larger group the instructor can demonstrate these and thenparticipants can try on their own and then ask questions.
This is the step where we actually upload it to Github. GithubDesktop lets us create a new repository on github.com without usingthe web browser. In this step, we also push the changes to theremote repository, though it happens without us seeing all themiddle steps.
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In this lesson you will be introduced to the basics of version control, understand why it is useful and implement basic version control for a plain text document using GitHub Desktop. By the end of this lesson you should understand:
As research increasingly makes use of digital tools and storage it becomes important to consider how to best manage our research data. This becomes especially important when we want to collaborate with other people. Though version control was originally designed for dealing with code there are many benefits to using it to with text documents too. Though not all of these benefits will be covered in this lesson, version controlling your document allows you to:
Version control will not be necessary for all of the documents you write. However there are times when version control will be very useful. For substantial work such as articles, books, or dissertations, version control makes a lot of sense.
The implementation of version control we are going to use in this lesson will be publicly available, but it is possible to use version control and keep your documents hidden permanently or until you decide to make them available.
Though often used synonymously, Git and GitHub are two different things. Git is a particular implementation of version control originally designed by Linus Torvalds as a way of managing the Linux source code. Other systems of version control exist though they are used less frequently. Git can be used to refer both to a particular approach taken to version control and the software underlying it.
Dropbox, Google Drive and other services offer some form of version control in their systems. There are times when this may be sufficient for your needs. However there are a number of advantages to using a version control system like Git:
Using version control has become pretty well established in some scientific disciplines, though its adoption is still far from universal. In the humanities and social sciences the use of version control systems like Git are much less common. The projects below show some possible ways of using Git in academic setting:
New projects pop up regularly and many open source tools which you may use in for digital humanities will be hosted on GitHub, so understanding GitHub may also be useful for using these tools more easily.
GitHub Desktop will allow us to easily start using version control. GitHub Desktop offers a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to use Git. A GUI allows users to interact with a program using a visual interface rather than relying on text commands. Though there are some potential advantages to using the command line version of Git in the long run, using a GUI can reduce the learning curve of using version control and Git. If you decide you are interested in using the command line you can find more resources at the end of the lesson.
One of the trickiest aspects of using GitHub is the new terminology. Some of the commands are fairly self-explanatory, others less so. This tutorial will try and briefly summarise new terms. It may also be helpful to have a glossary on hand to refer to. But in general it can be best to pick up terminology through using GitHub rather than trying to understand all of the terms before you begin using it.
To commit changes you must give a summary of the changes and include an optional message. It is important that you think carefully about when to make commits. The advantages of version control taking snapshots of your changes regularly relies on you making commits. It is often tempting to just commit changes when you have finished working on a document but this might not reflect when important changes occurred.
Thinking about how version control is used for code can make this idea more clear. When a new feature, or a bug fix, is added to some software it is important that these features can be isolated. If a commit includes changes to different aspects of the code it makes it hard to isolate when problems were introduced. It is also makes it difficult to remove a single change that is causing problems if other changes are included in the commit.
It is important that you use meaningful commit summaries and messages. Writing good commit messages requires some prior thought. Messages that make sense to you as an explanation of changes when you make a commit may no longer make sense to you in the future. If you are going to use version control in collaboration with other people it is especially important that other people can understand your commit messages. Version control as a system for managing changes to documents works best when active thought goes into using the software. It is therefore particularly important when collaborating with other that there is a shared understanding and approach to using version control.
A potentially useful parallel to writing good commit messages is the messages included when you edit a Wikipedia or Wiki page. When writing these messages it is important to explain the changes you made to the page and the reasoning behind these changes so that other people who see the changes can understand your reasoning. Approaching commit messages as if they will be read not only by yourself but also by others will help you write clear and meaningful commit messages.
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