Guide: Setting Up git for CS 240

To set up git, there are certain commands you will run:

1. Once for the entire semester (“Course Setup”),
2. Once for each computer you use (“Computer Setup”),
3. Once each time you work on Data Science Discovery (“Assignment Setup”)

Course Setup

To begin to work on assignments and turn in work, you will need to create a git repository for the course.

• Follow the link below to create your repository.
• DO NOT go to the link given to you, you will use that link later in Step 3.
• Visit: https://edu.cs.illinois.edu/repo2/cs240-fa21/

Computer Setup

1. On your computer, go to your Desktop and create a cs240 folder on your Desktop

2. Now, going back and using your terminal/command line, run the following commands to navigate into your cs240 folder:

   cd Desktop
   cd cs240
   

3. Clone a local copy of your git repository with the following command (making sure to replace YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL with the URL from the “Course Setup” above):

   git clone YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL
   

4. Navigate into your git directory by going into your NetID-named folder:

   cd fa21-cs240-NETID
   

5. Set up a connection to the _release repository where code will be released for you:
   • If the command worked, nothing will show up when you run this command. (No output means no error! :))
   • If you are not sure, you can run it again and it will say that “the remote already exists”.

   git remote add release https://github.com/cs240-illinois/cs240-fa21_release
   

6. Let git know who you are REPLACE YOUR NAME and EMAIL with your name/email:

   git config user.name "Your Name"
   git config user.email "netid@illinois.edu"