GitHub Enterprise: Quick Start

Start here

• Open a repository: https://git.ucsf.edu/search?q=python&type=repositories
• Read the README
• Browse files
• Click commit history

⚠️ You must be on VPN or the UCSF network to access git.ucsf.edu.

👉 Need to set up authentication first? How to authenticate with UCSF GitHub Enterprise (GHES) 

Know these 3 things

• Repository (repo) = files + history
• Commit = a saved change
• History = what changed and why

Focus on

• Reading, not writing
• Understanding that changes are tracked
• Knowing you can always go back

Learn your way

• Interactive (no setup): learngitbranching.js.org
• Hands-on (GitHub): skills.github.com
• Local practice (real Git): git-katas
• Guides (Git Tower): Git Tower guide
• Guides (Atlassian): Atlassian Git tutorials
• Deep dive: Wizard Zines: Git

We're here to help

• Office hours: GitHub Office Hours
• Newsletter: GitHubbub
• Slack: #ucsf-github
• Teams: Hardy Pottinger