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Pull changes from GitHub

Pull changes from GitHub

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Pull changes from GitHub

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- [Instructor] GitHub repositories are online and so they can be used by multiple developers. Each day when you start working with a particular repository you might want to pull down changes that have been made by other developers. I'll demonstrate how to do this by adding a new file from the GitHub projects website. I'll click Add a Read me. That will create a new read me file in the markdown language. I'll scroll down a bit. I'm just going to accept the default text and I'll go all the way down here and click on Commit New File. So now the file exists in the online repository but it doesn't exist yet on my local copy. From here I'll now go to the menu and choose VCS, Git, Pool. I'm asked where I want to place the new files which branch? Now the name of your primary branch will depend on when you created it. In current versions of Git the initial branch is called master but by the time you watch this course it…

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