Cloning a repo
git clone URL_of_repo
Create a new branch
git branch name_of_branch
Go into a branch
git checkout name_of_branch
Do both at once:
git checkout -b name_of_branch
After editing, committing, and pushing
git add .
git commit -m "comments"
git push origin name_of_branch
After pushing to your branch, go to GitHub website --> click new pull request --> choose the branch you want to merge to master --> continue the process
Pulling updates from branch
git pull
Merging master into your branch: Go to your branch after pulling from master --> git merge master
ALWAYS CHECK WHAT BRANCH YOU'RE IN BEFORE YOU START CODING
To deploy to the Github.io page, run the command npm run deploy in the root folder.
Run npm install to install necessary packages if stuff isn't working.
If you need to install another package to make things work, make sure you use the --save-dev flag.
- Ex:
npm install gh-pages --save-dev