In this blog you will be going to learn all the important commands in this Github crash course that 90% of the Data Scientist used in their day to day life.

How to upload any file to Github

The first commands helps us to initialize the git in your project

git init

The second helps you to

git add .

The third commands help you to commit all the files in the project.

git commit -m "Initial commit"

The fourth command

git branch -M main

git remote add origin https://github.com/<username>/<repository>.git

Then push the Github to the main branch

git push -u origin main

Now it will ask you to login into your Github account.

One you login it will upload all the files in your Github.

Some common problems while uploading

Problem 1 – If you are uploading the secret Key (.env file) along with the Github it will through you the error

In that case, what you have to do is create a .gitignore file which will exclude your .env file. Then, you can safely upload the project to GitHub. Below is the .gitignore file

# Exclude environment files
.env
.env.local
.env.*.local

Now delete the .git folder and again run all these commands

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/DataSpoof/demos.git
git push origin main --force

Note- If you want to store secret then you have to use Github secret. Then create a secret variable

Changing the branch

This command will help you to create a branch.

git branch branch-name

If you want to create a branch and switch

git checkout -b branch-name

Stashing

Stashing means saving your uncommitted changes temporarily so you can switch branches or pull code without losing your work.

Example Use Case

You’re working on a file and suddenly need to switch to another branch:

• ❌ You cannot switch because you have uncommitted changes
• ✔ So you stash them

Practical

I have this index.html

I have done some changes in the index.html

After this you want to temporarily save the file (stash it) and move to the other work, The command for this given below.

git stash push -m "stash index file" index.html

If you want to list all the stash present you can use this command

git stash list

If you want to see the details of the stash you can use this command

After this add the changes to the html file and then commit out

git add index.html
git commit -m "Applied stash changes"

If you want to clear the last one you can use pop command if you want to clear all you can use the clear command.

git stash pop
git stash clear
git stash drop stash@{0}

Conclusion

In this blog, all the major concepts of Github is covered.

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