The Perfect Workflow, with Git, GitHub, and SSH In this lesson, we'll focus on workflow. More specifically, we'll use the helpful GitHub service hooks to automatically update a project on our personal server whenever we push updates to a GitHub repo. Prefer a Video Tutorial? Press the HD for a clearer picture. Step 1 - Create a Git Repo We certainly need some sort of project to play around with, right? With our test directory in place, let's create our first Git commit. If you're unfamiliar with Git, I highly recommend that you first review "Easy Version Control with Git." Open the command line: Those familiar with Git should feel right at home. Step 2 - Uploading to GitHub The next step is to upload our project to GitHub. Again, if you're not familiar with GitHub, and haven't yet created an account, read Terminal, Git, and GitHub for the Rest of Us. Begin by creating a new Git repository. Next, you'll need to fill in some details about your project. And finally, since we're already working with an existing Git repo, we only need to run:
The Thing About Git The thing about Git is that it's oddly liberal with how and when you use it. Version control systems have traditionally required a lot of up-front planning followed by constant interaction to get changes to the right place at the right time and in the right order. And woe unto thee if a rule is broken somewhere along the way, or you change your mind about something, or you just want to fix this one thing real quick before having to commit all the other crap in your working copy. Git is quite different in this regard. You can work on five separate logical changes in your working copy -- without interacting with the VCS at all -- and then build up a series of commits in one fell swoop. Or, you can take the opposite extreme and commit really frequently and mindlessly, returning later to rearrange commits, annotate log messages, squash commits together, tease them apart, or rip stuff out completely. I'm not saying this is the Right Way to use Git: in the end, it all goes to the same place.
Introductory Guide to Git Version Control System Git is a version control system used by development and programming teams, popular open source projects, and other team collaboration projects. In this Git guide, we will discuss the value of version control systems, an overview of Git, advantages and disadvantages of using Git, how to install Git, basic commands, tools and essential Git resources. (For designers, also check out The Ultimate Guide to Version Control for Designers.) What Is Version Control? Essentially a version control system (or a revision control system) is software that has the ability to manage and track changes that occur to any document that is in a given project. Do not think of these snapshots as backups because with a backup you have a separate copy of a file. The other advantage of a version control system is that you don’t have multiple backup files to manage. A key benefit of version control is being able to have several people working on the same document at once. Who Should Use a Version Control System? Gitk
Fast Version Control System Documentation Reference Reference Manual The official and comprehensive man pages that are included in the Git package itself. Quick reference guides: GitHub Cheat Sheet | Visual Git Cheat Sheet Book Pro Git The entire Pro Git book written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub is available to read online for free. Videos See all videos → External Links The External Links section is a curated, ever-evolving collection of tutorials, books, videos, and other Git resources.
Git: Your New Best Friend Introduction This article introduces version control and Git without assuming you have any prior knowledge or programming experience. Because of its introductory nature, certain details are simplified or omitted and the use of the Git Graphical User Interface (Git GUI) is emphasized. Afterwards the reader should be able to use Git for basic version control and know where to locate further information. Version control is the process of recording the history of changes to files as they are modified. Users can go back in time and get old versions and identify where changes were introduced (people sometimes refer to version control tools as time machines). The first version control (VC) tool, SCCS, was written in 1972 and since that time there have been major advances in the way VC tools are used. Other well-known VC tools – for example Subversion – are classed as centralized and provide only a single place, the repository, into which users store their changes on a regular basis. Concepts <!
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com Note of reflection (March 5, 2020)This model was conceived in 2010, now more than 10 years ago, and not very long after Git itself came into being. In those 10 years, git-flow (the branching model laid out in this article) has become hugely popular in many a software team to the point where people have started treating it like a standard of sorts — but unfortunately also as a dogma or panacea.During those 10 years, Git itself has taken the world by a storm, and the most popular type of software that is being developed with Git is shifting more towards web apps — at least in my filter bubble. Web apps are typically continuously delivered, not rolled back, and you don't have to support multiple versions of the software running in the wild.This is not the class of software that I had in mind when I wrote the blog post 10 years ago. Why git? For a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of Git compared to centralized source code control systems, see the web. The main branches ¶ develop
Git Book - Distributed Workflows Unlike Centralized Version Control Systems (CVCSs), the distributed nature of Git allows you to be far more flexible in how developers collaborate on projects. In centralized systems, every developer is a node working more or less equally on a central hub. In Git, however, every developer is potentially both a node and a hub — that is, every developer can both contribute code to other repositories and maintain a public repository on which others can base their work and which they can contribute to. This opens a vast range of workflow possibilities for your project and/or your team, so I’ll cover a few common paradigms that take advantage of this flexibility. Centralized Workflow In centralized systems, there is generally a single collaboration model—the centralized workflow. Figure 5-1. This means that if two developers clone from the hub and both make changes, the first developer to push their changes back up can do so with no problems. Integration-Manager Workflow Figure 5-2.
ignoring files committed 19 Jan 2009 We don’t need Git to version everything in our projects, be it compiled source, files with passwords, or temporary files that editors love to create. Usually keeping stuff out of your VCS’ hands is a task that is hard to manage and annoying to set up. Not with Git! Using the .gitignore file along with some other options, we’re going to learn how to set up per-project and per-user ignores. The easiest and simplest way is to create a .gitignore file in your project’s root directory. Here’s a basic .gitignore: $ cat .gitignore # Can ignore specific files .DS_Store # Use wildcards as well *~ *.swp # Can also ignore all directories and files in a directory. tmp/**/* Of course, this could get a lot more complex. Two things to keep in mind with ignoring files: First, if a file is already being tracked by Git, adding the file to .gitignore won’t stop Git from tracking it. git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
3 Reasons to Switch to Git from Subversion « markmcb Dozens of articles outline the detailed technical reasons Git is better than Subversion, but if you’re like me, you don’t necessarily care about minor speed differences, the elegance of back-end algorithms, or all of the hardcore features that you may only ever use once. You want to see clear, major differences in your day-to-day interaction with software before you switch to something new. After several weeks of trials, Git seems to offer major improvements over Subversion. These are my reasons for jumping on the Git bandwagon. Let’s start with a few assumptions for the scenarios we’ll walk through: you’re one of many developers for a projectall changes going into production must first be peer-reviewedyou all use simple GUI text editors like TextMate or an equivalentyou have 4 features that you’re working that are due soon Let’s get to work. Endless, Easy, Non-File-System-Based, Local Branches Note the key advantages Git offered in each step: Stashing Temporary Work Conclusion