The Basics of Git and GitHub

Matthew McCullough Head of Training at GitHub, provides an introduction to the concepts and motivations behind the growing number of migrations to the Git version control system and leverage of the social coding features of GitHub for both open source and commercial software development. This class is offered in a live webinar on dates listed at http://github.com/training/free.

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1. THE BASICS OF GIT AND GITHUB Git tooling, techniques, and the GitHub platform
2. @matthewmccull matthew@github.com github.com/training
3. Who is Matthew? Open source contributor Build tool and continuous delivery author 5 year Git evangelist VP of Training at GitHub
6. ‣Why Git? ‣Setting up Git ‣Using Git ‣Using GitHub
7. Why Git?
10. I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git. -Linus Torvalds “
11. CVS Subversion PVCS Perforce Clear Case Source Safe RCS Folders
12. Small Footprint
13. Simple
14. Powerful
15. Composable
16. Setting Up Git
17. binaries on your $PATH
18. http://help.github.com
19. Using Git
20. Create a Git repository
21. http://progit.org
22. http://github.com/matthewmccullough/git-workshop
23. http://help.github.com
24. Git GUIs
25. http://mac.github.com
26. https://github.com/github/GitPad
28. http://eclipse.org/egit/
29. Using GitHub
31. ‣Social coding ‣Fork and pull model
32. Blessed Repo
33. ‣Web-based image diff ‣Lightweight issue tracking
35. https://enterprise.github.com
36. Training
37. http://github.com/training/free
38. http://github.com/training/online
39. Q&A
40. @matthewmccull matthew@github.com github.com/training