Git Collaboration (CLI)

This page is intended purely for internal documentation and MAY or MAY NOT be used for any of our submissions.

Here's a few steps for those unaware of how GitHub works

Step 1: Create Access Tokens

Go To GitHub
Sign-In
On the Top Right Corner, Profile -→ Settings
On the Left Pane, Developer Settings -→ Personal Access Tokens -→ Tokens(classic).
Click on Generate New Token -→ Generate New Token(Classic)
In the following Page: a. Give a name to this Access Token in Note section. b. Set an Expiry for this, personally I use a No expiration but its is usually recommended to go for a set number of days Eg: 30 days. c. I usually check mark everything, so that I have full access of my GitHub Account from the terminal.
Click on Generate Token.
This will generate a code, copy this code and store it in a very very very safe place (No not in a Notepad .txt file)

Windows: make sure to install git and make sure its added to the PATH.

Open Terminal (Windows Terminal/ Bash/ Fish / Zsh Shell ).
(Optional) Create a new Folder or Change directory to your desired location using

mkdir is a short for "Make Directory" and cd is a short for Change Directory

mkdir all_repos
# or
mkdir /path/to/all_repos (might not work in windows)

or

cd all_repos
# or
cd /path/to/all_repos

git clone https://github.com/1412kauti/space_gripper.git

This will prompt for a username, use your github username (NOT THE EMAIL) and press Enter/Return.
For the password, paste the Personal Access Token (PAT) from the previous step. (No Not your Github Password...it wont work)

cd space_gripper

git pull

leave the terminal(No Do'nt close it), Make a few changes to the project (IDK...add theory pdf/docx files or Matlab files,etc in their respective folders using Windows Explorer/ Mac Finder / Nautilus)
now come back to the same Terminal and add the changed files for a commit using: (NOTE: Empty Folders are not added)

git add .

git commit -m "Message of the Day...LOL"

git push