git-and-github.md

Git and Github

Outcome

You'll:

• Be able to use the common git commands
• Collaborate with other developers
• Version your code so you can back to any previous point in time
• Use github to store your code
• Understand Github's Pull Request's for reviewing code

Prerequisites

None

Advice

95% of developers use git for version control. It has ALOT of features, you'll use <50% of them (We know because we use <50% of them!).

Git is very command line based, i've not found a UI that works very well. The tool that best visually helps understand what's going on is Github.

We'll be using the Pull Request model so we can take a look at the code you're writing and review it for you to help you get better 😄.

Learning materials

Core

• Code School Git Real 1 (not Git Real 2)
• Code School Git Mastering Github Level 1 and 2 only.

Additional / useful

• My Homemade git cheatsheet
• Git cheatsheet

Tasks

• Run through the code school course + tasks.

• Setup git on local machine (you should be using SSH rather than https when you use git (no password prompts))

  • Mac:
    • Install git via Brew
    • Install Git Radar, which makes your command line look awesome.
  • Linux:
    • Install git via apt-get on the command line
    • Install Git Radar(manual install instructions), which makes your command line look awesome.

• Do this task

• Start using it for all your future task submissions once you're done 😄