01 Getting the data

Now that you have successfully installed git/gitHub its time to download the data to your local computer.

Make sure you are are in sync

Before doing anything it is important that you make sure that the data on your computer is up-to-date with that of everybody else.

• open your github application and select the ReadingData repo
• press "fetch"
  • This will inform you if there are changes on GitHub that are no on your harddrive
  • If there were, and the button changes to pull, click "pull"
• make sure that you are in the correct branch !
  • As a rule: collaborators never push to the master branch.
  • If you work in your own fork: open a new (feature-) branch in which you'll work.

prepare to work on a task

Now that you are up-to-date with the latest changes, it's time to prepare a workspace for yourself.

• switch to the branch you wish to work on, or create a new one.
• don't forget to publish the branch so that others can see what you are working on!
  • try to give your branch a sensible name to help others understand what you intend to do, e.g if you input new persons name your branch with the id range that you plan to work on P0200-P0259-input.

open files

There is a handy shortcut in the desktop client to open files directly: Just right-click on the repo and select: "Open in Finder" (macOS) or "open in explorer" (windows)