The Git source code control system
Dueling Coders
by Matthew McCullough & Tim Berglund

SVN Git

Why Another?
Not just for versioning source
Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS)
Value of centralized + decentralized
Easy merging from many branches
Doesn’t pollute
100,000 artifacts

Git Going

Getting Git
• Cygwin
• MacPorts
• Distro-specific package manager
• Binaries

Username Setup
git config --global user.email matthewm@ambientideas.com

URL Styles
• Public Clone URL (Git Protocol)
git://github.com/matthewmccullough/helloworld.git
• Private Clone Path (SSH Protocol)
git@github.com:matthewmccullough/helloworld.git
• Filesystem Path
/users/mccm06/projects/helloworld.git

Cloning Repos
• Command to retrieve a remote repo
• Works against Git and SVN

IDE Tools
• EGit, Eclipse Plugin Update Site
http://www.jgit.org/update-site
http://github.com/guides/using-the-egit-eclipse-plugin-with-github
• Git4Idea
Get via plugins menu
• Netbeans
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/NetBeansPlugin

Sharing Repos

Serve
git help daemon

Serve
git daemon --export-all --base-path=.

Free Git Hosting
Github
http://github.com
Gitorious
http://gitorious.org

Sharing Demo

Add, Checkin
git add *.java
git commit -m‘Did some work’

Switch Branch,
Checkout
git branch ANEWBRANCH
git checkout ANEWBRANCH

Push
git push origin master

Pull
git pull origin master

Branching

Just Branches?
Core idea of DVCS
Same as always, but less painful
Branches are local
Branch for every feature
Main is for generals

Branching Demo

Merge
git merge ANEWBRANCH
(destination = current branch)

Conflicts

Squash
git merge --squash ANEWBRANCH
(destination = current branch)

Tag
git tag VERSION1.0

Cherry Pick
git cherry-pick -r e8ac5ed693
(destination = current branch)

Resources

Documentation
• Wiki has the most up to date info.
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/
InterfacesFrontendsAndTools

How To Guides
• http://github.com/guides/home

Quick Reference
• http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-
cheat-sheet.html

Q&A