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Git basics
Set up Git, a distributed version control system, to manage your GitHub repositories from your computer.
- Set up Git
- Setting your username in Git
- Caching your GitHub credentials in Git
- Why is Git always asking for my credentials?
- Updating credentials from the macOS Keychain
- Git workflows
- About remote repositories
- Managing remote repositories
- Associating text editors with Git
- Configuring Git to handle line endings
- Ignoring files
- Git cheatsheet