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Break Things
Don’t be afraid of experimenting for Rails Girls London 6
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Break Things Don’t be afraid of experimenting Zoë Nolan Rails
Girls London December 2015
Hello my name is Zoë Find me online at http://zoenolan.org
Don't worry about taking notes http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/12/break-things/
Try things Following guides is a good start But only
the start of your journey
Not all Experiments work Things will go wrong
Version Control Word’s track changes for source code
Git Created by Linus Torvalds Been around since 2005 Widely
used
Who am I? git config --global user.name “Ada Lovelace“ git
config --global user.email
[email protected]
Somewhere to store the changes git init RailsGirlsLondonSix
Adding changes git add TheNextFacebook.rb git commit
Branching Create a Branch git branch CoolNewThing Switch to a
branch git checkout CoolNewThing Delete a Branch git branch –D CoolNewThing
See your changes git status git log
Tutorials Try Git http://try.github.com/ How to Use Git and GitHub
https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-use-git-and-github--ud775 Pro Git http://git-scm.com/book
Resources Git cheat sheet https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitCheatSheet A successful Git branching model
http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/12/break-things/