Work with Git

Make sure that you complete Setup GitLab before proceeding, since this step assumes that your Git repository is setup properly.

You will be using Git for version control. We’ll discuss the various operations you need to perform using Git.

Get a local working copy

This is your first step after GitLab is setup: clone a local, working copy of the repository to your computer.

Open the web page for your GitLab project. Click on the Code button, and copy the URL from Clone with HTTPS.

In a terminal, on your computer, cd to the location where you want to keep your source code. git clone the URL.

$ git clone https://git.uwaterloo.ca/cs346/public/mm.git

In this example, we would have a folder named mm that contains the contents of the Git repository.

You can make local changes to your Git configuration.

You should add a .gitignore file to the root of your source tree, if you haven’t done so already.

$ cd working_directory
$ vim .gitignore

Your .gitignore should include at a minimum .idea and build/ folders.

*.class
.idea/
build/

You should update your local working copy to use your UW email and username.

$ cd working_directory
$ git config user.email "your_email@example.com"
$ git config user.name "Your Name"

Once these changes are complete, you can and push the changes.

$ git add *
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git push

Once this is complete, your teammates should be able to git pull and see your changes in their own working copy.