Making Changes Locally - msu-anthropology/indian-country-ss20 GitHub Wiki

To make changes to your cloned repo before sending them to the original online, install a text editing program. We highly recommend Atom because it integrates well with GitHub's desktop application and because it gives access to all your project's files in a sidebar. Either Notepad++ for PC or TextWrangler for Mac are viable options, though LEADR staff are much more familiar with Atom.

To open any single file (including the .html files we're editing for this project), first you'll need to open the local folder where they are saved. If you install Atom, and then open GitHub Desktop, the application will automatically detect Atom and give you the option to open your project in Atom straight-away when you right-click (or control-click for Mac) on the repository's name in your repository list.

Otherwise, you can do get to any file by either using Windows Explorer (or Finder on Mac) to navigate to the location where you know they are saved, or by right-clicking on the name of the repository in your GitHub program on your computer and choosing "Open in Explorer" (or or control-click and choose "Open in Finder" on Mac).

Then, in that location, simply right-click (or control-click for Mac) on the file and choose the text editor from this options list (at least, Notepad++ adds itself to this list). Or, choose "Open With" on this options list and then pick the text editor.

If you want to view changes as you make them to .html files, simply double-click to open and it should open in your internet browser. As you make changes in the text editor to the file, you can refresh the window or tab of the file in the browser to see the changes immediately.