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Frederick Cheung
April 20, 2013
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Introduction to Version Control
Lightning talk on version control from Rails Girls London.
Frederick Cheung
April 20, 2013
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Transcript
Introduction to version control
Managing changes
• Wikipedia page history • google docs revision log •
track changes in Word
None
How does a good VCS help?
Saving our bacon • Store your code securely • Throw
away a change that doesn’t work • Find an older version that works • Find what change caused a problem
Working with others • Allow people to work together without
conflict • Avoid fragmentation of the codebase • Track who changed what, when, why
Experimenting in isolation • You don’t want to release a
half done or experimental feature • Create a copy of your codebase: a branch • When that feature is done, you merge that branch
Top tips
Lingo • You store code in a repository • You
checkout code from a repository • You commit changes back to the repository • When you commit a change you write a commit message explaining your changes
Keep commits small and focussed • Fix 1 bug •
Add 1 feature • Not all the work from 1 day
Commit messages are letters to your future self • Explain
what you are doing, and why you are doing • 1 line summary, plus longer discussion if needed
A bad commit message • Doesn’t tell you why you
made the change. • Doesn’t describe what the change was • Won’t make much sense 6 months from now Twiddle some CSS
A better commit message Fixed homepage rendering bug on firefox
16 Firefox incorrectly calculates padding when nesting a something element in a something else element.
There are many revision control systems • git, mercurial, bazaar,
svn, darcs, perforce etc. • git is the most popular in the rails community
Where to go from here • Install git! • Free
git hosting at github.com • The git book - http://git-scm.com/book • GUIs: Tower, github for mac/windows
Version control is for everyone!