Git Setup

Forking

Make a personal Fork of Kelly’s Repo: https://github.com/kblincoe/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1. Clone your fork of the repo onto your local machine (You might have to use SSH depending on how your git is set up locally)

• HTTPS: git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git
• SSH: git clone [email protected]:YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git

Setting up URLs

Set your fetch URL to Kelly’s Repo: (You might have to use SSH depending on how your git is set up locally)

• HTTPS: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/kblincoe/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git
• SSH: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:kblincoe/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git

Set your origin URLs to YOUR Repo. This will make both fetch and push URLs for origin your forked repo URL:

git remote set-url origin URL/OF/YOUR/REPO

Check your fetch and push URLs are set correctly:

git remote show origin

You should see something like this:

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: [email protected]:YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git
  Push  URL: [email protected]:YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (up to date)

Optional Steps

As a further prevention for pushing directly to upstream master, you can block this at a local environment level. Execute git remote set-url upstream --push NO and you will be unable to push at all to upstream, only fetch from. To verify this has worked, execute git remote -v. You should see output similar to below.

origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1 (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1 (push)
upstream        https://github.com/kblincoe/VisualGit_SE701_2019_1 (fetch)
upstream        NO (push)

The next thing you should do is read Git Flow.