📚 TUDev Git Telephone Workshop

Welcome to the TUDev Git Telephone Workshop! 🎉

In this activity, we’ll learn Git basics by playing a fun spin on the classic telephone game. Instead of whispering a phrase, we’ll pass it along through commits and branches. By the end, we’ll merge everything together into one (probably hilarious) final sentence.

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🛠 What You’ll Learn

• How to clone a repository
• How to branch and work in parallel
• How to commit changes
• How to push and pull from GitHub
• How to merge branches and resolve conflicts

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📂 Starter Files

• story.txt → contains the starting sentence:

  TUDev is awesome!
  

• README.md → this file (instructions).

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone your team repo

   git clone <your-team-repo-url>
   cd git-telephone

2. Create a branch with your name

   git checkout -b edit-yourname
   git push -u origin edit-yourname

3. Make your edit

   • Open story.txt
   • Change the sentence slightly (like in the telephone game).

4. Commit your change

   git add story.txt
   git commit -m "Changed story to: TUDev hosts pizza robots!"
   git push

5. Pass it to the next teammate

   • The next teammate pulls and repeats:

     git pull origin edit-theirname

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🔀 Merging in Your Team

Once everyone has made their edits:

1. One teammate (the “merger”) switches to main:

   git checkout main
   git pull origin main

2. Merge each teammate’s branch into main:

   git merge edit-yourname
   git merge edit-teammate
   git push origin main

3. If there’s a conflict, open story.txt, resolve the conflict, then:

   git add story.txt
   git commit
   git push

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🎉 The Grand Finale

At the end, TUDev will merge all team repos into one final story. We’ll read it aloud together to see how the message transformed.

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📘 Resources

• Git Documentation
• Learn Git Branching Game
• GitHub Classroom Docs

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✨ Have fun and don’t worry if you hit a conflict — that’s part of the game!