Assignment 2

For this assignment, you are going to create a new web page to add to an existing website in my GitHub account. To do this, you will clone my repository, create a branch for your changes, and then create a pull request to merge your changes back to my public repo.

Instructions

1. Fork this repository by clicking the "Fork" button in GitHub. This will create a copy of this repository with its complete history as a new repository in your account.
2. Clone the repository to your computer. Do this by clicking the green "Code" button in the repository, select "SSH", and copy the URL that will look something like this: [email protected]:my-username/repository.git. Once you have that URL copied, open the Git Bash terminal in your Projects folder. Once open, run the "git clone" command with the copied git URL: git clone <paste your copied repository here>
3. Open VSCode. Select File -> Open Folder and open the Assignment2 folder which should have been created when step 2 is complete.
4. Create a branch for your changes. Do this by clicking on the Main branch name in the bottom left corner of VSCode. This will open VSCode's Command Palette at the top center of the program. Here you will see an option to Create new branch\. Select that and type a unique branch name so that we don't end up with conflicts for this exercise. An easy thing to do here would be to include your username in the branch name. For example, I might name mine hayatae-new-page. The branch name can not contain spaces. Once you've selected a name, hit the enter key. This will create the branch for you and make it your active branch which you can see in the bottom left corner of VSCode.
5. Create a new html page! Again, to avoid conflicts for this exercise, name the page something that includes your user name. In a more practical example, we'd all be creating different pages for different topics, but I'm not coordinated enough to organize that at the moment. :D So create something like gale-page.html. Here, feel free to add any content you'd like.
6. Edit the existing index.html page and add a link to your new page!
7. Save all files and try it out by opening the index.html page in your browser. You should be able to click your link to go to your page. You could also add a link on your page to go back to the home page like gale-page.html has.
8. Commit your changes to your branch and push the changes. Don't forget to write a good commit message!
9. Go to GitHub and open your fork of the repository. Click on the Pull requests tab. You should see an orange banner at the top noting that your branch had recent pushes and a green button for Compare & pull request. Click this button. You should see that it's prompting you to create a pull request for merging from your branch in your fork into the main branch of the base repository in my account.
10. Feel free to enter a comment or leave blank and hit the green Create pull request button.
11. Congratulations! You've made your first pull request! We'll review and merge these pull requests in the next class and review this process.