{"id":213,"date":"2013-12-04T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.prattsils.org\/?p=213"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:06:21","slug":"create-github-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/2013\/12\/04\/create-github-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a GitHub Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial is a beginner&#8217;s introduction to using GitHub for Mac. This video covers creating a GitHub repository in the Terminal application and pushing files to the GitHub website using their desktop application. You will need to create a GitHub account and download <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.github.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub for Mac<\/a>\u00a0in order to follow along. Please not that the simple tutorial ends at 8:17. An additional tutorial follows that demonstrates the exact same process but using a different file type\/format.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub is a particularly useful tool for DHers because it allows for version control and collaboration. Multiple users can simultaneously work on the same code without over-writing one another&#8217;s work. Later, they can choose to merge the multiple versions of code into a single new file. Additionally GitHub maintains snapshots of the code at various points in time, and users will be able to restore their code to previous states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/80529284\">CrozierScreenCast<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user17606379\">DHSkillshare<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">This tutorial is a beginner&#8217;s introduction to using GitHub for Mac. This video covers creating a GitHub repository in the Terminal application and pushing files to the GitHub website using their desktop application. You will need to create a GitHub account and download GitHub for Mac\u00a0in order to follow along. Please not that the simple tutorial ends at 8:17. An&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/2013\/12\/04\/create-github-repository\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-skillshares","tag-github","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}