For this milestone, you are creating your first feature branch and release. You will repeat this process for every future milestone, so get it down now!

General requirements:

• You need to follow the style laid out in the C# Coding Conventions

Assignment requirements:

You will need to:

1. Accept the GitHub assignment
2. Create a feature branch, make changes, and push your branch to GitHub
3. Merge your feature branch back into your main branch
4. Create and submit a release

Purpose:

The purpose of this assignment is to set up your local repository, practice working with feature branches, and learn how to create and turn in a release. These are all tasks that you will revisit with each milestone, so it pays to get comfortable with them now.

Recommendations:

You’ll likely want to come back and revisit the feature branches as well as this page as you work on future assignments.

Part 1 - Accept the GitHub Assignment and Clone your Repo

This part should be familiar from prior semesters. Accept the GitHub classroom assignment (You can find the link in the assignment on Canvas). Then clone the remote repository it creates to your development machine. You can do this from Visual Studio’s File > Clone Repository… option or from the command line with:

$ git clone [repoURL] 

Where [repoURL] is the clone repo from GitHub:

The GitHub Clone URL

This task is covered in more detail in the section on remote repositories

Part 2 - Create and Check Out a Local Feature Branch, Make and Commit Changes, and Push to GitHub

Once you have cloned your project to a local repo and set up your webhook, you are ready to create your first feature branch, ms1 (for milestone 1). I recommend doing this from the command line. You can open a terminal in Visual Studio by visiting the View > Terminal menu option or by pressing the CTRL + backtick keys. Then you can create your branch with the command:

$ git branch ms1

And check it out with the command:

$ git checkout ms1

From this point until you check out a different branch, any commits you make will be made to the ms1 branch.

The changes you will need to make are adding two new classes to the Data project representing two additional entree options at the Flying Saucer, the Crashed Saucer (an order of French toast) and the Livestock Mutilation (an order of biscuits and gravy). The structure of these classes (along with the provided FlyingSaucer class) is detailed in the UML diagram below:

The CrashedSaucer class should be defined in a file named CrashedSaucer.cs. The names of its properties and their expected values appear in the table below:

The LivestockMutilation class should be defined in a file named LivestockMutilation.cs. The names of its properties and their expected values appear in the table below:

Because you have made changes to the project, it is a good idea to run your tests and make sure you didn’t inadvertently break another feature (we’d normally also add new tests for what you added, but we’ll cover that later in the semester).

Once you have done so, you will want to add the new files to those staged for a commit with:

$ git add .

Then you can commit your changes with:

$ git commit -a -m "Added the CrashedSaucer and LivestockMutilation classes"

Finally, you want to push this commit to your remote branch, origin/ms1. You can do this with the command:

$ git push origin ms1

The first time you do this, it will also create the origin/ms1 branch on GitHub.

You can also commit and push changes before you’ve finished working on your new classes. This is especially helpful if you need to stop working - it backs up your files in in case something happens. Likewise, if you want to start working on a different machine (say moving from lab to home), you can pull the latest version of your code from GitHub.

Part 3 - Merging your Feature Branch and Submitting to GitHub

Once you are happy with your code on your feature branch, it is time to merge it into the main branch and create a release. First, double-check that all changes have been committed by running the command:

$ git status

You should see the message "nothing to commit, working tree clean". If you don’t add and commit any changes before moving on.

Then switch back to the main branch with:

$ git checkout main

And merge your ms1 branch changes into the main branch with:

$ git merge ms1

After this, your main branch contains all the code changes from your ms1 branch.

Now you can push your main branch to GitHub:

$ git push origin main

Now create a release tagged v0.1.0 with name "Milestone 1". Copy the URL for the release page and submit it to the Canvas assignment.