Version Control for fun and Profit

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1. ! Version control for fun and profit Ben Balter government.github.com government@github.com
2. ! What’s GitHub?
3. ! The world’s largest code-sharing platform " Founded 2008 ! VC Funded $100M # Hubbers 232 $ Users 7M % Projects 15M
4. Ways GitHub <3’s WordPress Collaborating on plugins & Themes Technical forums Documentation Communities Managing WordPress installs Hacking on WordPress-core
5. ! 45,000 WordPress projects on GitHub
6. ! Version Control Tracking “who made what change when” since 1972
7. ! " The Commit Timestamp | Description | Author | Changes
8. A commit in the wild
9. ! & Git & Git & Git & Git & Git & Git
10. A few Git basics Installing Git mac.github.com windows.github.com ! Create Repositories $ git init [project-name] Creates a new local repository with the specified name ! $ git clone [url] Downloads a project and its entire version history Show changes $ git status Lists all new or modified files to be commited ! $ git diff Shows file differences not yet staged ! Make Changes $ git add [file] Snapshots the file in preparation for versioning ! $ git commit -m “[message]” Records file snapshots permanently in version history
11. ! ' History * 2d96cfe - (HEAD, tag: v3.1.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) :gem: bump (43 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * f4b446b - remove stray backtick (44 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * 83599e3 - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/benbalter/g-man (46 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> |\ | * 42514ea - Merge pull request #61 from devscott/laxco (50 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> | |\ | | * 072d9b5 - Adding in additional entry for La Crosse County, WI (54 minutes ago) <Scott Sloan> | |/ * | 1e95d95 - remove unresolvable domains (46 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * | 1a8645a - remove uwyo.edu/CES (86 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> |/ * 70410ba - Merge pull request #60 from jpmckinney/canada (2 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ | * a77ad43 - Use consistent comments for Canada hosts (2 hours ago) <James McKinney> | * 1776e45 - Add more Canadian hosts (2 hours ago) <James McKinney> * | 05211a0 - Merge pull request #58 from mitio/bulgarian-government-domains (3 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ \ | * | fe8f862 - Add Bulgaria's government main domain (3 hours ago) <Dimitar Dimitrov> | |/ * | 85d0c7b - Merge pull request #59 from mitio/fix-readme-typos (3 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ \ | |/ |/| | * f558a90 - Add missing word in the readme (3 hours ago) <Dimitar Dimitrov>
12. ! GitHub
13. % A Repository
14. ' History
15. ( Forks
16. ) Issues
17. * Pull Requests
18. + Diff
19. ! Managing WordPress deployments using Git
20. The one command you need to know git clone git://develop.git.wordpress.org/
21. The one command you need to know git clone https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress other ^
22. The one repository you need to know github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton
23. WordPress Skeleton
24. The one repository you need to know github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli other ^ probably should ^
26. ! Authoring (and using) WordPress Plugins and Themes with GitHub
27. Where GitHub fits in for users • Check if your favorite plugins are already on GitHub • Watch the repository to provide feedback on proposed features • Find a typo or confusing language in the documentation • Open issues (not support requests) if you notice problems
28. Where GitHub fits in 
 for developers and designers • Host your plugin or theme on GitHub, encourage contributors • Documentation • Translations • Issues • When ready, push to the WordPress Plugin Repository
29. A few Starting Points Plugins github.com/tommcfarlin/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate ! Themes github.com/roots/roots github.com/Automattic/_s
30. ! A few tools to get you started Sync WordPress content to GitHub
 github.com/benbalter/wordpress-github-sync ! Push from GitHub to WordPress Plugin Repo github.com/benbalter/Github-to-WordPress-Plugin-Directory-Deployment-Script ! Convert GitHub Wikis to WordPress Readmes github.com/benbalter/github-wiki-to-wordpress-readme ! An Example plugin github.com/benbalter/wp-document-revisions
31. To Review • Version Control - “who made what change when” • Git - A distributed version control system, not dissimilar from SVN • GitHub - Super awesome (open source) code host • For Deployments - All your code are belong to Git • For plugin/theme authors - Grow communities around your code • For users - Find your favorite plugins on GitHub and contribute
32. ! Version control for fun and profit Ben Balter government.github.com government@github.com