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PinkyKitty / PinkCraft

PinkCraft is a texture pack for the sandbox game Minetest. It's Minetest buttt Pink!
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It's a ZIP file in a git repository #1

Open taikedz opened 7 years ago

taikedz commented 7 years ago

Congrats on learning a bit of github :-)

For modpacks though, you just need to put all files directly in a textures/ folder.

GitHub takes care of zipping for you:

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Git powerusers can simply clone your repository directly to their texturepacks folder (mainly used by server admins)

Always make it easier for the downloader ;-)

PinkyKitty commented 7 years ago

Well, how do I put all images in at once? I can't put a folder.

taikedz commented 7 years ago

You don't normally just upload from the web interface at all ! GitHub is best used for syncing files between your computer and GitHub using the Git tools

You can use a Graphical User Interface client: https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

A guide is here: https://guides.github.com/introduction/getting-your-project-on-github/

Here's a rundown of creating a Minetest mod with Git and GitHub fully explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEFos-D41U&t=12m17s

If you can open a command line in your operating system (in Windows, after installing Git and GitBash, you can run the Git Bash program for this; macOS and Ubuntu come with it pre-installed), you can do the following to convert your GitHub repository:

(the lines starting with "#" are code comments, which means they're just there to talk about what is happening, you don't need to type them as commands)

  # Make sure you have the unzip tool (Ubuntu only)
sudo apt-get install unzip -y

  # Clone the GitHub repository onto your laptop
git clone "https://github.com/PinkyKitty/PinkCraft/"
cd PinkCraft
unzip PinkCraft.zip

  # Remove the ZIP file - we have just unpacked it and we won't be needing it anymore
rm PinkCraft.zip

  # Move the textures to the top level of the repository's folder
mv PinkCraft/* ./

  # Here's where the sync / upload happens !
  # Tell git you want to add all the files (`.`)
git add .
  # Tell git what you are adding
git commit -m "Converted from ZIP to a trackable folder of files"

  # Upload ! You will be asked for your GitHub user name and password
git push origin master

I had problems even downloading the ZIP through the git tools myself (unpacking takes a while but have patience).... but I would caution it as another indication that simply putting big binary files like ZIPs on github is not a good idea... The ZIP is now in the history of the repository, so this may always be the case until you create a fresh repository that has never had the ZIP in it before - but that's for another day.