Git and GitHubLesson 22Free preview

GitHub Edit Code

This lesson is part of Git · All levels

Summary

GitHub provides web-based editors to convert files without local clones. You can open the file, click the pencil icon, change the content, and then press Commit changes to save it as commit in the repo. Small changes like typing corrections in README are very practical done this way.

Key points

The pencil button on the file page opens the GitHub web editor
Commit changes save the changes directly as commit
When commit, you can choose the destination branch or create a new branch
The web changes remain in the form of regular commits and can be pulled to the local with git pull.

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