What I learnt - Monet Powell

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+# What I learnt - Introduction to GitHub 🙇🏾‍♀️📚✏️
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+## What is github?
+
+- Centralised cloud platform that allows developers to collaborate and contribute to repositories using git
+
+## Git vs Github difference ⁉️
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+- Git - local version control system tool
+- Github - Cloud platform for collaboration on git repositories
+
+## Clone vs Fork difference 🤖
+
+**Clone** - Create local copy of repo to make changes and collaborate (clone only)
+
+**Fork** - Create Github copy of another individuals repo to collaborate. Request permission to make changes and submit a pull request (fork then clone)
+
+## Important git commands
+
+- git init (intialise a new repo)
+- git pull (pull latest changes from remote repo)
+- git checkout -b branch-name (create new branch and switch to it)
+- git add . (stage all changes)
+- git commit -m "message"(commit staged changes)
+- git push -u origin (push to remote repo and set upstream)
+
+## Resources
+
+1. [Learn git branching](https://learngitbranching.js.org/)
+2. [Git best practises](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-git-best-practices-for-beginners/#best-practices-for-using-git)
+3. [Markdown Syntax](https://markdownguide.offshoot.io/basic-syntax/)