So this afternoon I was bored. Then I thought I would be somewhat productive and make some videos. I didn’t have anything prepared for making programming ones. However, I had a couple of people ask me about Git and why I thought it was so freaking great. So, today I offer you 3 new videos, giving a basic overview of the Git Source Code Management System. Here are the videos so far:

VTM01 – What is Git?
VTM02 – The Basics of Git
VTM03 – Pushing and Pulling

Thats all for now. If anyone has any thoughts on what topics should be covered, let me know. Git is huge, and I can’t cover all of the features in great detail. And remember kids, if all else fails:

man git

Cheers
Michael

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Notes

I cannot believe I messed up the remote path that many times! I am sorry about that. Of course, the side effect is you learnt how to both add and remove remotes. So yeah… I did that on purpose.

At this point, we can create a project or join an existing one. We can add files and commit changes. We can push our changes to remotes, and fetch changes that other people have made. This is all great. However, we haven’t touched on one of Git’s most powerful features. I am of course talking about branching and merging. This will be the priority for the next video.

Again, any feedback is much appreciated.

]]> http://www.20papercups.net/tutorials/git-vtm03-pushing-pulling/feed/ 3 http://www.20papercups.net/tutorials/git-vtm02-the-basics/ http://www.20papercups.net/tutorials/git-vtm02-the-basics/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:59:45 +0000 Michael http://www.20papercups.net/?p=172 This video hits up the terminal and starts using git. We start by creating a git repository, which is super easy with Git. Then, we look at adding files to the repository, and commiting changes.

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Notes

In this video, I specifically create a project using:

git init

. If you are working on your own projects, this is how you will work. However, a lot of the time you will be starting work on an already existing project. In this case, you don’t create a new repo using git init, instead you clone an already existing repository. The basic is this:

git clone path/to/repository

I will cover this in a later video, but I think it is important enough to mention here.

Another thing that I could have covered in more detail is the staging area. There is actually a lot more that you can do with it than I mentioned in this video. However, that will come later. For the first 3 videos (at least) I want to just get the basics down.

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Notes

Git is a distributed version control system, originally written by Linus Torvalds for Linux Kernel development. It is Free and Open Source software. You can get it for Linux, Mac and Windows (either native or cygwin). There are also plugins for Eclipse, etc, so you don’t have to work from a terminal like me.

This video just tries to convey what makes working with a distributed version control system different and better. Nothing too strenuous just yet. If you are a Git guru, I am aware that I am glossing over some details in this video. This is intentional, and I hope to cover some of these details in later videos, or at least in the accompanying text. Still, I welcome any and all feedback and suggestions.

Also, I apologise in advanced for my terrible tablet handwriting skills.