BEFORE YOU START: fork this repo to your GitHub account

PART 1 -- working with existing files

• clone this repo to your local machine
• look at the master branch log on your local machine
• open and edit the cold_blooded.txt file on master
• commit your changes to your local repo
• look at the master branch log on your local machine
• look at the master branch log on the remote GitHub Repo
• what's the difference?
• push your commit to the remote repo
• look at the master branch log on your local machine
• look at the master branch log on the remote GitHub Repo
• what's the difference?

PART 2 -- working with new files

• create a new file in local master called "lays_eggs.txt"
• commit your changes to your local repo
• look at the master branch log on your local machine
• look at the master branch log on the remote GitHub Repo
• what's the difference?
• push your commit to the remote repo
• look at the master branch log on your local machine
• look at the master branch log on the remote GitHub Repo
• what's the difference?

PART 1 -- working with existing branches

• from master, switch to the existing alligator branch
• edit a file called "swims.txt" in the alligator branch
• commit your changes to your local repo
• push your changes to the remote repo
• look at the alligator branch log
• switch to the master branch
• look at the master branch log
• what's the difference?

PART 2 -- working with new branches

• make a branch locally called tortoise
• push the local branch up to your remote repo
• create a file called "lives_on_land.txt" in the tortoise branch
• commit your changes to your local repo
• push your changes to the remote repo
• look at the tortoise branch log
• switch to the master branch
• look at the master branch log
• what's the difference?

PART 3 -- merging branches with master

• switch to the master branch if you are not already there
• look at the master branch log
• look at directory
• merge the alligator branch with master
• look at the directory
• what files now appear in the master directory?
• look at the master branch log
• what commits appear in the master branch log that weren't there before?
• look at the remote directory and logs
• push to the remote repo
• look at the remote directory and logs
• what has changed?

• in master branch
• reset to before you merged the alligator branch with master
• look at the directory
• what files no longer appear in master?
• look at the local master branch log
• what commits no longer appear in the master branch log?
• look on github
• what commits appear in the remote master branch log?
• what files appear in the remote master branch directory?
• pull commits from the remote repo to your local machine
• look at the directory
• what files now appear in master?
• look at the master branch log
• what commits appear in the master branch log that weren't there before?