Push the Theme to GitHub

Have you been pushing your theme to a version control service such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket? You should be. As you complete a module, you will want to save those changes and have a record of what changed. The preferred strategy is to put your theme under version control by creating a repository on one of the services and then using Git to document and push your latest work.

This episode assumes that you have Git installed on your machine and a repository is already created and synched. All of the services give you instructions on how to do this including how to put your theme under version control, such steps such as:

1. Go to the service.
2. Create a new repository.
3. Back on your local machine, navigate to the theme’s directory using the console.
4. Then follow the instructions provided on the screen by the service you are using, such as GitHub.

Each time you want to commit new changes, you do:

1. Back on your local machine, navigate to the theme’s directory using the console.
2. Type: git add .
3. Type: git commit -m 'and your witty message about the commit'
4. Type: git push origin master

Want to learn about Git? Code School as a great, interactive course that walks you the git commands and has you working within an online console. Give it a try: Learn Git. For good commit messages, Tom McFarlin has an article to help you guide you.

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Part 2d – Footer Sass Module – Developer’s Genesis Starter Child Theme

In Part 2d, you will finalize the Footer Sass Module, which includes the footer widgets and site footer components. Just like with the other Part 2 labs, you'll migrate in the media queries, assign variables to make it easy to customize, and refactor it further to remove redundancies and clean it up. Then at the end, let's commit the changes to GitHub.

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Check out the series page for more labs: Let’s Build a Custom Developer’s Genesis Starter Child Theme

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