Git is simpler than you think

Git Is Simpler Than You Think

$git me.name Ricardo Erikson$git me.email [email protected]

Scott Chacon (github co-founder)

If you are comfortable with version control and its a version control that is not git, you are going to hate git when

you start using it.

git is an open source, distributed version control

system designed for speed and efficiency.

References

http://gitref.org

http://try.github.io

http://git-scm.com/doc

http://stackoverflow.com

distributed git

every developer is potentially both a node or a hub

remote repository

remote repository

local repository

remote repository

local repository

git clone git pull

git remote

remote repository

local repository

git clone git pull

git remotegit push

you do a clone of the entire repository

which means

which means

everything is fast

every clone is a backup

work offline

no network needed

performing a diff

viewing file history

committing changes

no network needed

merging branches

obtaining other revisions of a file

switching branches

subversion-style workflow


shared repository public


shared repository

developer developer developer

public

private

integration manager workflow


publicprivate


blessed repository

publicprivate


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

publicprivate


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

integration manager

publicprivate


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

developer private

developer private

integration manager

publicprivate


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

developer private

developer private

integration manager

publicprivate

git push to publish the changes (commits) to the remote repository


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

developer private

developer private

integration manager

publicprivate

merge request


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

developer private

developer private

integration manager

publicprivate

git push to publish the local changes to the blessed repository


blessed repository

developer public

developer public

developer private

developer private

integration manager

publicprivate

git pull to update the local repository

branching and merging

(git allows and encourages) multiple local branches

!

fast creation, merging and deletion !

branching is cheap

you can do things like

frictionless context switching

role-based codelines & feature based workflow

disposable experimentation


master

develop


master

develop

topic branches


master

develop


master

develop

production code


master

develop

production code

merge


master

develop

production code

merge

feature/x

feature/y

bugfix/z

disposable experimentation

master

develop

topic branches

staging area

staging area

Intermediate area where commits can be formatted and reviewed before

completing the commit

Automatically stage files that have been modified

and deleted

New files are not affected!

$ git commit -a

Automatically stage files that have been modified

and deleted

New files are not affected!

working directory

staging area

repository

$ git commit -a

Getting and Creating Projects

getting a git repository


initialize a new one from an existing directory


initialize a new one from an existing directory

clone one from a public Git repository

git init

git init$ mkdir mygitproject

git init$ mkdir mygitproject$ cd mygitproject

git init$ mkdir mygitproject$ cd mygitproject$ echo README >> README

git init$ mkdir mygitproject$ cd mygitproject$ echo README >> README$ ls -a. .. README


$ git initInitialized empty Git repository in /tmp/mygitproject/.git/


$ git initInitialized empty Git repository in /tmp/mygitproject/.git/

$ ls -a. .. .git README

git init

git init$ cat .git/config[core]

repositoryformatversion = 0filemode = truebare = falselogallrefupdates = trueignorecase = trueprecomposeunicode = false

git clone

git clone$ git clone git://github.com/schacon/simplegit.git

Cloning into 'simplegit'...remote: Reusing existing pack: 13, done.remote: Total 13 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)Receiving objects: 100% (13/13), done.Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), done.


$ cd simplegit



$ cd simplegit$ ls -a


. .. .git README Rakefile lib

git clone

git clone$ cat .git/config[core]

repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = false

[remote "origin"]url = git://github.com/schacon/simplegit.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

[branch "master"]remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master

Basic Snapshotting

git add adds file contents to the staging areagit status view the status of your file in the working directory and stage area

git add adds file contents to the staging area

$ git status -s?? README?? hello.rb

git status view the status of your file in the working directory and stage area



$ git add README hello.rbA READMEA hello.rb




$ git add README hello.rbA READMEA hello.rb

$ vim README$ git status -sAM READMEA hello.rb


git diff shows diff of what is staged and what is modified but unstaged

git diff shows diff of what is staged and what is modified but unstaged

$ vim hello.rb$ git status -s M hello.rb$ git diffdiff --git a/hello.rb b/hello.rbindex d62ac43..8d15d50 100644--- a/hello.rb+++ b/hello.rb@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ class HelloWorld! def self.hello- puts "hello world"+ puts "hola mundo" end! end

other diff commands

git diff --cached shows diff of staged changes

git diff HEAD shows diff of all staged or unstaged changes

git diff --stat shows summary of changes instead of a full diff

git commit records a snapshot of the staging area


$ git config --global user.name 'Your Name'$ git config --global user.email [email protected]



$ git add hello.rb $ git status -sM hello.rb$ git commit -m 'my hola mundo changes'[master 68aa034] my hola mundo changes 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



$ git add hello.rb $ git status -sM hello.rb$ git commit -m 'my hola mundo changes'[master 68aa034] my hola mundo changes 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

$ git status# On branch masternothing to commit (working directory clean)

basic git workflow

1 Edit filesEclipse/Sublime/vim/emacs/etc

basic git workflow


2 Stage the changes$git add (file)

basic git workflow



3 Review the changes$git diff / $git status

basic git workflow



3 Review the changes$git diff / $git status

4 Commit the changes$git commit

or


or


2 Stage and commit$git commit -a

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Git is simpler than you think