• Sign in to github.com on a web browser
• Using the dropdown in the top right corner navigate to Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens. !PersonalAccessToken01.png !PersonalAccessToken02.png
• Select Generate new token and create the token type you want. For most cases you probably want to add Contents to the Permissions when using fine-grained tokens. Copy the token generated. !PersonalAccessToken03.png !PersonalAccessToken04.png !PersonalAccessToken05.png
• Now when you perform Git actions on the command line you should be prompted for the token. Paste the token into the window that pops up. !PersonalAccessToken06.png
• When you are done you can go back to the Personal access tokens page on Github and delete unwanted tokens or just wait for them to expire.

• Sign in to github.com on a web browser
• Navigate to the repository you wish to clone on Github. From the Code tab click on the <> Code dropdown button to get the clone URL. !CloneRepo01.png
• From a command line navigate to the directory you wish to hold your git repos and use the following command:

git clone [url] [name]

[url] is the url link you copied from github, [name] is optional and is the name of the folder you wish to clone into. If no name is included a folder will created that matches the name of the repo.

To check on the status of a workspace, navigate to that workspace on the command line and use:

git status

• Navitage to your workspace on the command line.
• Create a new branch off the master to develop the feature in:

git checkout master
git checkout -b [featureBranchName]

• Navitage to your workspace on the command line.
• Check you are in the correct branch:

git branch

• If you are in the wrong branch you can change braches using:

git checkout [featureBranchName]

• Make sure the workspace is up to date by pulling the latest from the repo:

git pull

• Make your local changes to the workspace.
• Add your local changes to the changelist:

git add .

• Commit your changelist with a comment:

git commit -m "My Comment"

• Push your commited changelist to the repo:

git push

• Create a new branch off master to hold your release:

git checkout master
git checkout -b [releaseBranchName]

• For each feature branch, merge those features into the release branch:

git merge [featureBranchName]

• If you are done with the feature branches you can delete them using:

git branch -d [featureBranchName]

• You can now test your release branch and fix any problems it has after merging all the features together.

• When the release branch is ready you can merge this back into the master:

git checkout master
git merge [releaseBranchName]

• If you are done with the release branche you can delete it using:

git branch -d [releaseBranchName]