A starter repository for RCOS student status updates.
Status Updates are informal weekly short-form blog posts detailing a student's progress in RCOS during the previous week. Please consult the RCOS Handbook for a detailed overview of background and requirements.
If you're a first-time RCOS student follow these steps to get started:
-
Fork this repository (
rcos/rcos-status-updates
) so you have your own copy. -
Clone the your fork of this repository down to your local machine and navigate into the resulting directory:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/rcos-status-updates.git
cd rcos-status-updates
- Add this repository (
rcos/rcos-status-updates
) as theupstream
git remote to your local copy:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/rcos/rcos-status-updates.git
This will enable you to easily sync changes made in rcos/rcos-status-updates
with your repository.
- First-time setup is complete :)
If you're a returning RCOS student follow these steps at the beginning of the semester:
- Navigate to your local copy of this repository, for example:
cd ~/code/rcos-status-updates
Make sure that all your current changes have been saved and committed - you can check with the git status
command.
- Pull the latest changes from this repository (
rcos/rcos-status-updates
):
git pull upstream/master
- Returning student setup is complete :)
-
Write a new status update in the directory corresponding to the current semester (i.e.
summer_2018
). -
Track and commit your changes:
git add .
git commit -m 'Added status update for week 01'
- Push your status update to the
master
branch of your fork:
git push origin master
- All done :)