NOTE: Even as a database guy, you still should check in your scripts, etc..

A Good reference: https://education.github.com/git-cheat-sheet-education.pdf

If doing work in the master branch

• cd <directory>
• git pull origin master
• git add –all
• git commit
• git push origin master

           mike branch
     /---------------------->
    /                        \ 
---O--------------------------O------------>
   |                          |
 branch                     merge              

• cd <directory>
• git branch mike_branch
• or
• git checkout -b mike_branch
• git status
• git add .
• git commit -m “some comments”
• git push origin mike_branch

This pushes the changes from the mike branch to upstream on github

Git complains about a big file after you do a commit.

• git rm –cached scripts/restore/bigfile.dat
• rm 'scripts/restore/bigfile.dat'
• git commit –amend –no-edit
• git push origin master (or main)

• cd to the directory you want to clone to
• git clone https://github.com/<project>
• git config –global user.email “your email”
• git config –global user.name “first last”