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- Quickstart
- Learning about GitHub
- Signing up for GitHub
- Using GitHub
- Exploring projects on GitHub
- Getting started with Git
- Setting your username in Git
- Caching your GitHub credentials in Git
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- 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
- Using Git - Pushing commits to a remote repository - Getting changes from a remote repository - Dealing with non-fast-forward errors - Splitting a subfolder out into a new repository - About Git subtree merges - About Git rebase - Using Git rebase on the command line - Resolving merge conflicts after a Git rebase
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Getting started with Git
- Setting your username in Git
- Caching your GitHub credentials in Git
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- 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
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