Git for the Uninitiated

A presentation delivered by Matthew McCullough at DevNexus 2013 in Atlanta, GA, USA.

1. A collaborative reboot for version control GIT FOR THE UNINITIATED
2. Matthew.... @matthewmccull ‣Open source contributor ‣O'Reilly Git Video Co-instructor ‣Co-Author of O'Reilly's Git book ‣5-year Git trainer ‣Instructor at GitHub
3. http://oreil.ly/ogitvid
4. http://amzn.to/oreillygit
9. Version Control A refreshed approach to VCS
11. Open Source
12. bash scripts ☛ C code
13. is not a slightly better
17. http://git-scm.com
18. Starting Up Creating a repository
19. Get a GitHub account.
20. Get a GitHub account. http://github.com/signup/free
21. Create a new repo(sitory).
22. Add a file.
23. View the commit history (timeline).
24. Make changes to the file.
25. Repo Creation Local and remote initialization simplicity
26. # Green field project $ git init newproject $ cd newproject # ...start coding
27. or if you already have source code
28. # Legacy project tree $ cd existingproject $ git init # Add all the code $ git add . $ git commit -m”Initial import”
29. ‣Blob ‣Tree ‣Commit ‣Tag
30. tree tree: 7e8b1 web blob: 9ab16 index.html a10b3 tree blob: 8d162 logo.jpg blob: 51d22 draw.js 7e8b1 commit tree: a10b3 parent: nil author: Fird committer: Matthew message: Major refactoring of the web content. c67db blob <html> <body></body> </html> 9ab16 blob //Some more javascript var renderSize 51d22 blob 7D 8D B3 7F BD 12 9F E9 7B 78 9D 3F 5C A6 72 CB 8d162
31. Collaborating Two authors
32. Make simultaneous changes to the file.
33. Collaborating Redux Untrusted collaborators
34. Untrusted changes to the file.
35. Changelist Three stage thinking
36. Working Staging Repo add commit edit
38. ‣shopping cart ‣put things in ‣take things out ‣purchase at register
39. v1 v2 v3 v4 File A File B File C File A File B File B File C v5 File A File B File B File A File A File C File C File C
40. Workspaces The power of simple branch toggling
41. Local Remote Upstream
42. # Creating a branch git branch <BRANCHNAME>
43. RELEASE_1.0 HEAD bug979branch commit c67db commit 9bd21 commit 1c2d7 commit 8c2d1 commit 1bdcd commit 2daa1
44. What do cheap branches enable?
45. ‣Experimentation ‣
46. ‣Experimentation ‣Safe experimentation
47. Better reuse of units of work
48. Work Models Enabling different development styles
49. product v1.0 integration story1 story2 v1.5 integration story3
50. Local Remote Upstream Integ Product Integ Product Integ Product
51. Local Remote Upstream Idea Story Feature Feature Feature Integ Product Integ Product Integ Product
52. Local Remote Upstream Idea Story Feature Feature Feature Integ Product Integ Product Integ Product
53. Central Repo C e n t r a l i z e d
54. Blessed Repo D i c t a t o r s h i p
55. Certified Repo Development Repo n t e g r a t i o n M a n a g e d Continuous Integration Server
56. C u s t o m + P u b l i c C o n t r i b Customized ☚ Private Public ☛ GitHub
57. Mirror Development Repo M i r r o r e d Mirror Certified Repo
58. Client Apps GUIs and other front-ends
59. http://windows.github.com
60. http://windows.github.com
61. http://mac.github.com
62. http://mac.github.com
63. Remotes Bandwidth and geographic challenges
64. Local Remote Upstream
65. Local Remote Upstream
66. Local Remote Upstream
67. data from http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/#git-is-fast git svn Init git svn Status git svn Diff git svn Tag git svn Log git svn Commit (Lg) git svn Commit (Sm) git c svn c Branch Speed
68. Local Remote Upstream commit fetch push clone clone clone push pull pull pull
69. Commit Push Pull
70. Commit Push Pull
71. Commit Push Pull
72. Integration CI, scripting, and hooks
74. "This is so important, we can't entrust it to automation. We need our top developer to supervise it."
75. continuous integration servers jenkins travis ci circleci buildhive
81. Summary The Git and GitHub ecosystem
82. training@github.com github.com/training @githubtraining githubtraining Q&A
83. http://learn.github.com
84. http://teach.github.com
85. Why Git?
88. I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git. -Linus Torvalds “ Credits: Martin Streicher, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg
89. CVS Subversion PVCS Perforce Clear Case Source Safe RCS Folders
90. Small Footprint
91. Simple
92. Powerful
93. Composable
94. Setting Up Git
95. binaries on your $PATH
96. http://help.github.com
98. Using Git
99. Create a Git repository
101. http://git-scm.com/book
102. http://teach.github.com
103. http://help.github.com
104. Git GUIs
106. https://github.com/github/GitPad
108. http://eclipse.org/egit/
110. Using GitHub
112. ‣Social coding ‣Fork and pull model
113. Blessed Repo
115. ‣Web-based image diff ‣Lightweight issue tracking
118. https://enterprise.github.com
120. Q&A
121. @matthewmccull training@github.com training.github.com