Clone the project repository

Simplely I take the Super-Taoism-Archives for example, the URL of the STA on github is: https://github.com/Mohism-Research/Super-Taoism-Archives.git, the git clone command is below:

git clone https://github.com/Mohism-Research/Super-Taoism-Archives.git

Then you find the STA directory appears in the current directory.

Update the repository

Before starting your work on the repository or pushing your commits into the repository, you need to synchronise with the remote service, so you firstly enter the STA directory, then run the update command:

cd Super-Taoism-Archives
git pull

Make your contributions to the commnunity

After editing the content under the STA, you can use several commands to check your changes,

• Using "git status" to view the summary of your changes

git status

• Using "git diff" to view the details differences between your changes and the riginal contents.

git diff

Then use the "git add" command to add your changed files into the adding buffer:

git add .  //Add the all files under the current directory.
git add yourfile   //Add the one single file

Next step you need "git commit" command to generate one commit in your local machine:

git commit -m "message"  //The message is your description about your changes.

Finally you should push your commit into the remote service, there is one very important thing you must do before your pushing, update the repository as the previous section I said, otherwise there will be conflicts if anyone changed the file you also changed.

git pull
git push

The Road is long

With these commands I mentioned, we can do baisc remote developments. However, the git is a very powerfull tool to manage the source, and unfortunately it's very complicated, the banner have to read more help mannuls to get deeper undserstanding of it.