(Or SourceTree might wait until the first time you try to interact with the “remote” repository, such as pulling/fetching data from it, or pushing data to it.) Upon doing so, you may get prompted for a username and password to your GitHub account and asked if you want to save it. If not, you’ll need to click the Add button and add it.You might want to, in the menu bar, click Repository -> Repository Settings and verify, in the Remotes tab, that your “remote” URL is there.In step 7, you’d click an “add” button instead of a “clone” button.“Awesome Repo 1,” in the “Name” box if you want to. You would still choose your own “ Name,” e.g.You could ignore steps 3-5 of those instructions.You wouldn’t give SourceTree a URL and a folder it should put the local copy in, since that’s already been done.C:\example\GitRepos\Ver圜oolRepositoryNumber1). through “ git clone” on a command line), then in step 2 of the instructions above, you’d click the square “ Add” button, not the square “Clone” button, and would “Browse” to populate the “ Working Copy Path” box with the folder where you already put a local copy (e.g. Note: these instructions presume you haven’t already told your computer about the -based “remote repository.” Leave everything else alone and click the “clone” button.I decided to change that to “Awesome Repo 1”. SourceTree will probably populate the “ Name” box with whatever the final folder of “Destination Path” is.įor example, it switched it from “testprivaterepo” to “Ver圜oolRepositoryNumber1” on me as soon as I hit “tab” from setting up the path on my hard drive where I wanted to store a local copy of my GitHub content.I like to change that to something more meaningful.Īlso, you don’t have to call the final folder “ REPOSITORYNAME.”įor example, I’m going to grab a repository called “testprivaterepo” but save it as C:\example\GitRepos\Ver圜oolRepositoryNumber1. SourceTree will probably have already populated the “ Destination Path” box with a filepath named something along the lines of C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEONYOURPC\Documents\REPOSITORYNAME.Type your password to your GitHub account. The moment you hit “tab” to move onto the “ Destination Path” box, you’ll get a popup that says “Authenticate,” with YOURGITHUBUSERNAME populated into the “Username” field and a blank “Password” box.In the “ Source Path / URL” enter the URL you obtained in step 1.It’s something along the lines Open SourceTree click File -> Clone/New.Ĭlick the “ Clone” button near the top if you’re not already in it. Telling SourceTree About A “Remote Repository” from Instead, it follows standard Git protocol and helps me organize the act of downloading a copy of my “respository” to my personal computer, tracking changes I make to my PC’s copy of files in the “respository,” and uploading those changes in an organized manner back to, , etc. SourceTree doesn’t directly edit the files on those sites. However, once I installed SourceTree, I still had to tell it about all the sites online (,, , etc.) where I’ve keeping stashes of code (“repositories” / “repos”) I care about. Ordinarily, people teach you how to keep track of changes to a codebase through Git’s command-line interface.īut I like GUIs.
I’m not going to cover installing SourceTree, but it’s a “graphical user interface” (GUI) for exploring directories on your hard drive that are “tracked” with the “version control” software called Git. is a for-profit website made to host files that are controlled with Git (sort of like Dropbox can host copies of your family photos).Git is software that provides “version control” over a directory full of files on a computer.(This is also a gentle way to start getting used to concepts behind Git if you’re a Salesforce administrator who wants to learn SFDX.) Git != GitHub Learn how I set up graphical software called SourceTree to make it easier. Syncing someone else’s -side changes into my computer’s copy.Editing a file and updating ’s copy with the changes.Telling SourceTree About A “Remote Repository” from.
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