Fork this repository to your github account.
Clone your fork to your local machine
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/The-Name-Game.git
Create a feature branch to add your name: git checkout -b name-feature
Change names.txt and add your name to the end of the list on a new line.
Stage the file to be committed. git add names.text
Commit your change
git commit -m "Added YOUR_NAME to the list of names."
Push your branch to github
git push origin name-feature
Add a teammate's fork so you can pull their code (substitute their github username).
git remote add jbrown git@github.com:jbrown/The-Name-Game.git
See what is in their repository.
git fetch jbrown
# see what branches you now have
# anything under remotes/ is a full copy of a remote branch.
git branch -a
Rebase their commits into your feature branch. ()
git rebase jbrown/name-feature
Resolve a merge conflict. In this case you want to keep all the names so just remove the lines added by the merge.
Frank
YOUR_NAME
Tell git the conflict has been resolved.
git add names.txt
git rebase --continue