The Basics of Git and GitHub

THE BASICS OFGIT AND GITHUB

Git tooling, techniques, and the GitHub platform

@matthewmccull

matthew@github.com

github.com/training

Who is Matthew?

Open source contributor

Build tool and continuous delivery author

5 year Git evangelist

VP of Training at GitHub

‣Why Git?

‣Setting up Git

‣Using Git

‣Using GitHub

Why Git?

I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name

all my projects after myself.

First Linux, now git.-Linus Torvalds

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CVS

Subversion

PVCS

Perforce

ClearCaseSource

Safe

RCS

Folders

Small Footprint

Simple

Powerful

Composable

Setting Up Git

binaries on your $PATH

http://help.github.com

Using Git

Create a Git repository

http://progit.org

http://github.com/matthewmccullough/git-workshop

http://help.github.com

Git GUIs

http://mac.github.com

https://github.com/github/GitPad

http://eclipse.org/egit/

Using GitHub

‣Social coding

‣Fork and pull model

Blessed Repo

‣Web-based image di!

‣Lightweight issue tracking

https://enterprise.github.com

Training

http://github.com/training/free

http://github.com/training/online

Q&A

@matthewmccull

matthew@github.com

github.com/training