diff --git a/docs/InstallingTheKit/InstallingTheKit.md b/docs/InstallingTheKit/InstallingTheKit.md index 51a4506fc..8ebaa8511 100644 --- a/docs/InstallingTheKit/InstallingTheKit.md +++ b/docs/InstallingTheKit/InstallingTheKit.md @@ -6,17 +6,33 @@ There is no failure except when nothing is learned. ## Clone from github -First you should clone the project from GitHub. The easiest way is to use something like this: +First you should clone the project from GitHub. The easiest way is to use something like this. Say you want to call your app <YOUR_APP_NAME>: -![Cloning from GitHub](git_clone.png) +```bash +git clone git@github.com:erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example.git \ + -o react-redux-universal-hot-example +cd +``` -This puts a copy of the whole project into your directory `mycopy`. All the files you will change are -in this directory. You can `rm -rf mycopy`, clone it again, and continue on. +This puts a copy of the whole project into your directory ``. All the files you will change are +in this directory. You can `rm -rf `, clone it again, and continue on. That's the minimum view of git, equivalent to the [xkcd view](https://xkcd.com/1597/). Git and [github](https://github.com) make every manipulation and automated workflow possible but none easy. Nothing more complex than creating new copy is necessary until contributing code to a project. +Note: You'll probably want to have your own Git repo somewhere like github to keep your own updates safe. + +To do that: + +* First create the empty (no README.md or any other files) repo on [github.com](https://github.com) + +* Then add it as the ``origin`` remote locally + +```bash +git remote add origin git@github.com:/.git +``` + ## Run npm install diff --git a/docs/InstallingTheKit/git_clone.png b/docs/InstallingTheKit/git_clone.png deleted file mode 100644 index 4a36715b5..000000000 Binary files a/docs/InstallingTheKit/git_clone.png and /dev/null differ