A beginner-focused Q&A covering common GitHub tasks: setting up SSH keys, creating Personal Access Tokens (fine-grained and classic), understanding the difference between merging and rebasing, resolving merge conflicts via the GitHub UI, undoing commits with git reset, syncing forked repositories, and reviewing pull requests including using Copilot code review.
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What is SSH and how do I add my SSH key to GitHub?How do I add a PAT to GitHub? What is a PAT?What’s the difference between merging and rebasing, and how do I fix a merge conflict?How do I undo my last commit?How do I update or sync a forked repository on GitHub?How do I review a pull request on GitHub?Next stepsTags:Written by668 Impressions