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Documentation Office Hours: GitHub Workflow for Ubuntu Documentation - March 8, 2024

Offered By: Ubuntu OnAir via YouTube

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Course Description

Overview

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Join a recorded Documentation Office Hours session from the Technical Authors team at Canonical. Learn about the progress of their first week, plans for expanding the task list, and watch a live demonstration of using GitHub to complete documentation tasks. Explore topics including forking repositories, cloning local copies, creating branches, making edits, committing changes, pushing to GitHub, creating pull requests, responding to review comments, and merging changes. Gain practical insights into collaborative documentation workflows using Git and GitHub.

Syllabus

- Introduction and updates
- Live git and GitHub demonstration
- GitHub task list
- Forking the Open Documentation Academy repository
- `git clone` to create a local copy of your fork
- `git checkout` to create a new local branch to work in
- Create and edit any proposed documentation changes
- `git add` and `git commit` to stage which files you want to change
- `git push` to push local changes to your GitHub fork
- Create a pull request to ask that your changes are considered
- Responding to review comments
- Merge the pull request


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Ubuntu OnAir

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