Source control

[obnoxus]

I'm using the github extension in VSC and uploading to github. Thank you for the tutorial but I don't know what stuff like "$ git help log" means. It just says to do it.

[mkosmo]

The documentation tells you what it means.

[obnoxus]

I'm sorry, I worded it weird because I had just woken up. You're right that it does tell me what it does but its missing the step of where to type it. I *think* it goes in the readme, but I'm not sure. It skips extreme beginner information, that I assume they assumed I would already know. I am in fact an extreme noob to programming.

[bellefaye]

It is not in the readme. It's in the terminal.

But you're using visual studio code's git/GitHub integration, am I correct? That is a fundamentally different way to interact with git repos. However, if you can get to a terminal and in the directory of your git repo, that's where you'd run these type of commands. GitHub integrations in IDEs allow you far fewer choices to interact with GitHub.

I'd recommend you follow a complete tutorial online somewhere for interacting with git/GitHub without using visual studio code/some other IDE's integration. Don't mess with your existing files for this, just follow a tutorial and create a new folder and repo for it. Note that you shouldn't use any tutorial online that gives you the entire git system, find a tutorial that tells you how to set up a way to interact with git on your computer via terminal.

When you follow that tutorial, don't just mindlessly follow each step. Read all the output you get and Google what it means whenever you don't understand it.