This is a page with all the information I’ve compiled about using git commands, GitHub Desktop, and related topics.

Git commands

Environments

To create an environment type: conda env create --name envname. Can check the list of environments using conda env list and the locations where they are stored with conda info --envs. To create an environment from a .yml file, use conda env create -f environment.yml.

To activate an environment, use conda activate envname and to deactivate type conda deactivate

Can remove an unused environment using conda env remove --name envname. This doesn’t delete the environment folder, just removes the contents, so I would delete the environment folder as well (so that if you decide to create an environment with the same name as the one you just deleted, you won’t run into any issues).

Cloning

To Clone a repository, go to the github repository website and click the green button called <> Code. Click the SSH tab and note the command that should look like git@github.com:username/reponame.git. Next, type

git clone git@github.com:username/reponame.git

in a command line while you’re in the folder in which you want to create the repository.

Branches

Pull and Push

git init git add -A git commit -m “Initial Commit” git remote add origin remote_repository_url (where you obtain the url from copy to clickboard under code category of already created repository) git push -u origin master