Follow this URL to setup SSH on windows powershell for github.

delete branch locally

git branch -d localBranchName

delete branch remotely

git push origin --delete remoteBranchName

Create new git branch

git checkout -b branchName

This is shorthand for:

git branch branchName
git checkout branchName

Make an empty commit for pushing to production.

git commit --allow-empty -m "Commit message"
git push -u origin branch_name 

Scenario

• Has a pre-existing remote repo with code
• Has a local folder that is not a git repo but I want to turn it into a git repo and sync it with my pre-existing remote repo

How to get it done.

• Go to local repo
• git init
• git remote add origin <ssh link to remote repo>
• git fetch – this will bring upstream code down to local repo
• git checkout -b "new branch name" – this will move the new code changes to the new branch
• git add on the new branch
• git commit -m "message" on the new branch
• git push -u origin new_branch_name
• On github, merge the new branch back into master branch
• On terminal (local computer). Do a git pull to merge online master branch to local master branch
• Proceed to make the necessary changes like deleting some files, moving things around, e.t.c from master branch. Could also do this step before merging to master branch.

How to resolve a merge conflict where master branch has changed resulting in your own code being out of sync with master

From the command line

1. git checkout master
2. git fetch
3. Git checkout the branch you were using to do your work
4. git merge master
5. If the code merges automatically, GREAT. If not, it will show you things that couldn’t be merged automatically. To resolve this, Go to VSCode or your IDE. Click "Accept both changes"
6. Push your changes back to github and merge conflict should be resolved.

After setting up SSH, how to add email and username to terminal

git config --global user.email "email@example.com" git config --global user.email (To confirm setting) git config --global user.name "Mona Lisa" git config --global user.name (To confirm setting)