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+title: Week 3 Git Activity and Extension
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+# My thoughts on Git and working with Git
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+Make your blog post for the week. Comment on the git exercises we did in class. 
+Comment on the work with your team and progress you have made towards 
+your first browser extension (what are some problems the group is facing, what good things happened, 
+how do you fit into the collaboration, what are your biggest contributions)
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+- The git activity that we completed in class this week was very helpful and a good refresher for me
+  personally I haven't been forking other people's repositories so learning what upstream is was really
+  helpful for me to learn how to connect/link repositories together to keep files update to date. I also
+  didn't know that git is widely used in some circles now even non-CS people use git for collaboration
+  which I didn't know until this week. I think git is a powerful tool that I probably need to get more 
+  used to beyond the basic commands that I use for my own repositories as I don't make merge/pull requests
+  and instead just commit straight to my repos. I think it was great that Professor Klukowska setup this activity
+  for the non-git users too. The newly introduced git config thing for merge/rebase was really interesting too
+  as all of us students got to solve and fix the problem in class.
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+- So I've started working on my extension named "Seshy" with my groupmates and git has been tremendous in 
+  version controlling and preventing version conflicts. My groupmates and I create separate branches and before
+  merging I will check for any conflicts or issues and it's been nice keeping things separated before merging together.
+  I think the key was communication which we did through discord and we scheduled a time to meet to do some work for the
+  extension. Our extension essentially tracks the user data in a browser session like clicks, session time, scrolling length
+  etc. This was a great opportunity for me to learn how to collaborate with other people on an open source project that
+  we all created. We added every file necessary to make it open source that we know of. I believe that we had some trouble
+  splitting up work as we can't necessarily work on the file sometimes if one person does a lot and forgets to push it
+  to the main repository and keeps it on their local but it all comes to texting each other and communicating a bunch to make
+  sure that we are all on the same page. In the end, we did split up the tasks quite evenly and it worked out on different branches
+  then merging it all back together on the main. My biggest contributions so far have been making the skeleton for the extension and writing the readme.
+  Writing the readme was interesting as I looked at other readmes and used them as templates for what I should write and do. 
+  It seems like a number of readmes also included installion instructions and contributing which I made sure to be separate (well at least some parts
+  of the installation). Overall, I've been also learning a lot about how extensions work on FireFox from googling and researching
+  how to implement my idea for our extension, Seshy. Been a lot of fun!