GitHub for Beginners #3: Your First Commit & Push to GitHub
You've cloned your repo - now let's actually DO something with it. We'll create a .NET console app, commit our changes locally, and push them up to GitHub. This is the workflow you'll use every single day as a developer.
What you'll learn:
• Opening a repo from the command line with "code ."
• Creating a .NET console project (dotnet new console)
• Creating a solution file (dotnet new sln)
• Adding projects to solutions (dotnet sln add)
• Installing the C# Dev Kit extension in VS Code
• Understanding the Source Control panel
• Staging changes - what it means and why
• Writing good commit messages
• Local repo vs. remote repo (origin) - the mental model
• Git push - sending your commits to GitHub
• Verifying your changes on GitHub.com
Key insights:
• "code ." from the terminal = open this folder in VS Code
• Commits are LOCAL - they don't go anywhere until you push
• The .git folder is what makes a directory a Git repository
• "Origin" is just Git's name for "where this repo came from"
• Push = sync your local commits up to the remote
• The Source Control panel shows you exactly what's changed
• Git's periodic fetch setting is worth enabling
We'll build:
• A simple "Hello World" .NET console application
• Your first real commit with actual code
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