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GitHub Setup

1. Ensure Access to Repository​

You should all have access to this repository. If not please message me (Jayden) with your github username so I can add you as a member

2. Create A New Branch​

You can create a new branch in one of two ways:

If you have VScode. Open the repository folder in VScode and then click a button on the bottom left corner of the screen. It usually says the current branch you are viewing (probably 'staging')

Branch creation in VSCode

Or alternatively press cmd+shift+p or ctrl+shift+p for windows. It should come up with the command pallet, type 'git branch' and press the create new branch From...:

Command palette

Make a new branch from staging and name it workshop/[name]-api-route

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Ensure that staging is up to date by pulling. I will not go into detail about this but you can use the command git pull. Ensure you are in the staging branch when you do so

Alternatively you can use git commands

Checkout and pull staging to make sure its up to date

git checkout staging
git pull staging

Create and checkout into a new branch.

git checkout -b workshop/[name]-api-route

Replace [name] with your name

3. Push a Test Change​

Edit the readme and type your name at the bottom of the file

Edit readme

After you have done so - commit and push your changes

Commit and push

And you're all done!