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Repository Setup Instructions

The course's upstream repository (located at https://github.com/Make-School-Courses/CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures) contains course materials including the schedule, class topics, tutorial milestones, challenges, starter code, unit tests, slides, and links to resources. It will be updated throughout the course, so you will need to regularly pull from it to get new materials. (Note that you cannot push to the course's upstream repository.) However, you can clone this repo to get upstream changes and also push your code to your own repo.

Important: Please follow these instructions exactly to correctly set up your clone of this repository. If you skip a step or do them out of order, it may not work.

Step 1: Set up your local clone of this course repo on your computer.

  1. Clone (do not fork) this repo from GitHub onto your local computer.

  • First open your terminal and navigate into the folder where you keep your course material and projects: cd ~/MakeSchool/Courses (or something similar for your folders)

  • Then run this command to clone the course repo: git clone https://github.com/Make-School-Courses/CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures.git

  • Now navigate into the new folder Git just created: cd CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures

  1. Create a new empty repo on GitHub also named CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures and do not initialize it with a ReadMe. (Creating a new repo instead of a fork allows you to earn credit towards your GitHub commit streak.)

  2. Set the origin remote's URL on your local repo to point to your new repo on GitHub: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<your-username>/CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures.git

  3. Push your local repo to your remote GitHub repo to link your master branch to your origin remote: git push -u origin master

  4. Commit your code to your local repo frequently (each time you've made meaningful progress).

  5. Push your commits to your remote GitHub repo when you want to publish and backup your code: git push (the -u in the previous command lets you omit origin master afterward).

Step 2: Connect your local clone of this course repo to the upstream repo on GitHub.

  1. Add this course's upstream repo as another remote to your local repo with: git remote add upstream https://github.com/Make-School-Courses/CS-1.2-Intro-Data-Structures.git

  2. Verify that you have two remotes: origin (with your username in the URL) and upstream (with Make-School-Courses): git remote -v

  3. When you want to access new course materials, first be sure you've committed and pushed your recent work (run git status to check) and then pull from the course's upstream repo with: git pull upstream master

Note: To avoid unnecessary merge conflicts when pulling changes from upstream, write all of your project code inside the Code folder and do not modify or delete any existing files outside of the Code folder that may change upstream.