IntelliJ and GitHub Integration

IntelliJ and GitHub Integration

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Prerequisites
3. Creating GitHub Repository
4. GitHub configuration using IntelliJ 
5. Cloning a GitHub base project
6. Converting base project into Maven project
7. Sampling Java application
8. Creating a new branch for GitHub
9. Commit changes using the new branch
10. Pushing changes to GitHub

Overview

IntelliJ is a powerful editor which makes developers life simple. 

GitHub is a code collaboration platform, which is widely used for code hosting and collaboration among team members.

IntelliJ offers an extremely user friendly mechanism to integrate with GitHub with the help of which developers can easily get the code from GitHub, work on the code and push it back to GitHub.

This tutorial covers the procedure to integrate IntelliJ and GitHub with the help of sample Java application.

Prerequisites

1. GitHub account shall exist. Incase you don’t have your GitHub account created, please follow “GitHub Account SetUp” tutorial.
2. IntelliJ shall be installed at your system. If IntelliJ is not yet installed, please follow “IntelliJ Basics” tutorial.
3. Java shall be installed at your system. Incase Java is not yet installed, please install Java following below links –

Java Latest Stable Version Download  – 

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/

Java Older Version Download  –

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/archive/

Topics 3 – 10

Topics from 3 -10 are covered with detailed explanation and demonstration in below video tutorial. Please setup your system with all the prerequisites explained above and follow the video tutorial.

Video Tutorial Explanation is available here