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The platform is commonly used in the Software Development Community to share and collaborate on projects.
As the platform is not limited to code and any text-based formats can be managed, people outside of the development community also started to use GitHub.

• GitHub also provides desktop applications that abstract the command line only git program.
• It also offers a nice educational package for students that involves also other tools.

Links

• Git selbst ist ein Kommandozeile Programm, dass je nach Erfahrung schwierig zum Einsteigen ist. Das Web-basieret Tutorial von GitHub bietet jedoch einen Lehrgang für Anfänger.
• Wer nicht ständig im Terminal Kommandos eintippen will, kann auch die komfortable App GitHub Desktop installieren.
• Video-Tutorials gibt es hier und ein ironisches Video zum Sinn von Git da.There is an online tutorial for beginners that want to learn git.
• Other video tutorials can be found here.

Key Git Terminology

Repository - A directory that stores all the files, folders of a project.

Master - The primary branch of all repositories.

Commit - The action of storing a new snapshot of the project’s state in the Git history.

Fork - Creates a copy of a repository.

Branch - A version of the repository that diverges from the master of the project.

Push - Updates a remote repository with the commits made to the repository. 

Fetch - Download and copy remote repository files to your workstation.

Pull request - A request to merge your branch with a master branch. The repo maintainers can review and merge the branch into master.

gitignore - A file the specifies files or files types that should be ignored in commits