How To Use Git

Learning Git

Presentations

• Just the Basics
• Tags & Branches
  • Needed for making changes without affecting others
  • Useful for marking releases

If you want to use a GUI, one option is: SmartGit GUI

Practical

Using Git Example

Cheat Sheet

• Git Cheat Sheet

GitHub

We use GitHub to host our software repositories - take a look at a brief overview

• GitHub

Git Terms

• Repository - holds files and their history
  • Bare repository - no visible files, just the database that holds the stored information
• Clone - copy a repository
• Local/working - the directory/repository where you make your changes/work in
• Remote/source - the repository that your local/working repository was cloned from/where you send your completed changes.
• Commit - a version/revision of your repository or the act of creating a version/revision
  • on a commit, changes are only stored in the local/working repository
• Pull - update your local/working repository with any changes that have been made to the remote/source (you do not automatically see the changes)
• Push - update the remote/source with changes that you have made in your local/working repository
• Branch - alternate paths of work that allows you to commit/push/pull without affecting the other paths
• Master - the main/default branch
• Merge - bring in changes from another branch

Some common global setup

• global setup options are stored in ~/.gitconfig
• each repository may have additional config options
• source for the following options is here
• git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
• git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
• git config --global color.diff auto
• git config --global color.status auto
• git config --global color.branch auto