Git Back Control of Your Code
Learning How to Manage Your Code with Git & GitHub
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Who am I?
Brett Chalupa
What is Version Control?
define: version control
The task of keeping a software system consisting of many versions and configurations well organized.
Why use Version Control?
- Confidence
- Collaboration
- Process
What is Git?
define: git
An extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.
Why use Git?
- Distributed
- Community
- Tools
The Git Workflow
- Initialize a Repo
- Make changes to the codebase
- Stage the modified files to be committed
- Commit the changes
- Push the changes
The Git Workflow
Creating a New Repository
git initgit statusgit add changed_file.rbgit commit -m "change some files"git push github master
The Git Workflow
Making Changes to an Existing Repository
git pull origin mastergit statusgit add changed_file.rbgit commit -m "change some files"git push github master
The Git Workflow
Branching and Merging
git checkout -b bc/new_branchgit statusgit add changed_file.rbgit commit -m "change some files"git push github bc/new_branch
Other Useful Git Commands
git diff # show the differences
git branch -a # show all branches, locally and remotely
git remote # list remotes
git remote -v # list remotes with detail
git reset --hard HEAD~1 # go back 1 commit before the head
git remote rename origin github # rename a remote
git stash # temporarily store your changes
git stash pop # pop stashed changes back on top
git stash drop # drop stashed changes
What is GitHub?
define: github
Online project hosting using Git.
Why use GitHub?
- Pull Request
- Gists
- In-line Comments
- Wikis
- Repository Forking
- Issue & Bug Tracking
- Octocats