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Development Tools GitHub Basics Working By Yourself Create a Branch

Posted by Jerome vanGaalen
Jerome vanGaalen
18,941 Points

Can we do all of this directly from the github site?

Is it best practice to do this from your text editor? Can't we do all this directly from the github site?

1 Answer

John Stratton
John Stratton
18,726 Points
John Stratton
John Stratton
18,726 Points

You can do this directly from the GitHub website, but in production you will most likely need to use a text editor (and most have features and tools which aren't available through GitHub's online text editor), so it would be best practice to use your own text editor.

There are also gui's for using Git, but the command line is sometimes the only way you may be able to interface with Git in many situations.

Jerome vanGaalen
Jerome vanGaalen
18,941 Points

Thanks John. I also figured this out after watching the conflict video a little later on.

John Stratton
John Stratton
18,726 Points

You're welcome!