Open Source Collaboration with Git and GitHub

Super simple introduction to the concepts of Git and how to use GitHub.

Given to the RIT Society of Software Engineers in 2009. http://sse.se.rit.edu/

Transcript

1. Open Source Collaboration with Git and GitHub Nick Quaranto
2. whoami • 4th Year Software Engineering Major • From Buffalo – Snow is awesome – Go Bills • Rubyist • GitHub Blogger
3. Version control sucks.
4. But it doesn’t have to.
6. History
7. I'm an egoistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git. -Linus Torvalds
8. History • BitKeeper debacle • Design Goals: – CVS as an example of what not to do – Distributed workflow – Strong safeguards against corruption – Very high performance • In development since 2005
10. Fast 1. Fast
11. Directed Acyclic Graph
12. Small 2. Small
13. Git Internals: Blobs 457aef93ff7ffbb289f7e1384f900679eacf044a main.c
14. Git Internals: Trees
15. Git Internals: Commits
16. Git Internals: Commits
17. Local 3. Local
18. The Staging Area
19. CHEAP. 4. Cheap Branching
20. Git Internals: Branches branchname HEAD
21. Branching
22. Distributed 5. Distributed
23. Git Internals: Remotes branchname HEAD remotes/server/name
24. Local vs. Remote
25. Any Workflow 6. Multiple Workflows
26. Centralized
27. Integration Manager
28. Benevolent Dictator
29. Failboat. It’s not perfect.
30. The downsides • Complexity • Windows FTL • What's an IDE? • Unreadable source • Needs some maintenance
32. +
33. =
39. How to Contribute 1. Fork a repository at GitHub 2. Clone and connect your local repository 3. Write tests, implement functionality 4. Commit your local changes 5. Push your changes to your fork 6. Make a pull request 7. Profit!!
40. Demo
41. git log • Kudos to Scott Chacon who made – http://git-scm.com – http://whygitisbetterthanx.com • And to Michael Hartl – for Building the Insoshi Social Network • Wikipedia too. nick@quaran.to http://litanyagainstfear.com