The document discusses open source and version control. It introduces open source concepts like being publicly accessible and collaborative. Version control systems like Git and advantages of distributed version control are explained. Popular collaboration platforms including GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab are listed. The document also provides an overview of using Git for version control, including initializing a repository, adding files, committing changes, branching, merging, and more.

1. Muhammad Sohail
sohail0992 msohailse
Web Engineer /
DevOps

2. Open Source / Version
Control / Git

3. Agenda
● What is Open Source?
● Why Open Source?
● Collaboration Platforms.
● Why we use version control?
● Explore Github/bitbucket.
● Activity.

4. What you will learn?
● Find the right Repository/project to work on.
● Difference between local and remote repository.
● Basic understanding of git version control.

5. Goals to Achieve
● Prerequisites.
● Your First commit.

6. What is Open Source?
● Publicly accessible.
● Collaborative.
● Peer Review.

7. Why Open Source?
● Save time.
● Give back to the community.

8. How to Contribute
- Label: help wanted
- is:issue is:open label:beginner
- is:issue is:open label:easy
- is:issue is:open label:first-timers-only
- is:issue is:open label:good-first-bug
- is:issue is:open label:"good first issue"
- is:issue is:open label:starter
- is:issue is:open label:up-for-grabs
- is:issue is:open label:easy-fix
- is:issue is:open label:"beginner friendly"
- is:issue is:open label:your-first-pr
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/
https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-users/blob/main/markdown/total_contributions/pakistan.md

9. Collaboration Platforms
● GitHub
● BitBucket
● GitLab
● Launchpad
● SourceForge
● Beanstalk
● Apache Allura
● Git Kraken
● Git client
● Gitea
● Git Bucket

10. Version Control
● Git
● SVN
● TFS
● VSTS
● IBM Rational ClearCase
● Revision Control System
● Visual SourceSafe(VSS)
● PVCS
● Darcs
https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/version-control-software/

11. Distributed Version Control System (DVCS)
- Each user
- has its own copy (Decentralized)
- Can work offline
- Git is a distributed version control system.

12. Distributed Version Control System (DVCS)

13. Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle
everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
• https://git-scm.com/downloads

14. Git Initialize
● git init

15. Git Add
- git add [.] [file/folder Name]
- git-add - Add file contents to the index
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-add

16. Git Status
- git status

17. Diff
- git diff

18. Git commit
- git commit [-m] [-am] [--noverify] [--amend]

19. Good Commit Message
● Good commit message.
● Encapsulate one logical idea.
● Doesn’t introduce breaking changes.
● Associating code with an issue or ticket.

20. Git Remote
- git remote [--verbose | -v] [add]

21. Git Clone
- git clone [url]

22. Git branching
B
C
A
branch 1
branch 2

23. Merge
- git checkout -b new-row
- git commit -am ‘added td with sohail info to the table ’
- git checkout main
- git merge new-row

24. Git Merge

25. Cheat Sheet

26. References
● Redhat
● Just For Fun by Linus Torvalds
● What the Tech Industry Has Learned from Linus Torvalds: Jim Zemlin at
TEDxConcordiaUPortland
● Pro Git
● Console.log
● https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/github-alternatives/
● https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/learn-git-with-bitbucket-cloud
● https://www.perforce.com/blog/vcs/what-dvcs-anyway
● https://github.com/gayanvoice/top-github-
users/blob/main/markdown/total_contributions/pakistan.md