Konrad M. Lawson explains how attribution can be tracked in a GitHub repository and introduces some of the other ways to get general information about the evolution of your collection of texts.

The Git working tree explained. To properly translate the Git working tree, a developer must first recognize what is and isn't part of it. When a new repository is initialized, Git creates a hidden ...

Note that the .zip file does not come with the .git directory in it (at least from BitBucket -- I don't know how github or gitlab behave in this respect) so there's no actual repo behind it; just ...

The command is basically repo:(repo followed by a colon), followed by the full name of your repo, followed by a space and the word import. This will tell GitHub you'd like it to index your repository.

A Git repository is the .Git/ folder inside a project. Its purpose is to track the changes brought to the project, building a history over time. To do so, repositories in Git collect files ...