Git/Github 101
More than Code Storage
Created by Tom Wilson / @twilson63
On Tap
- What is Git?
- What is Github?
- Why should we use it for IT Documentation?
What is Git?
Distributed Version Control
Old School
Central
Distributed
History
- Born 2005
- Speed
- Simple design
- Strong support of linear Development
- Fully Distributed
- Able to handle large projects
Warning
Git thinks of its data more like a set of snapshots of a mini filesystem
The mechanism that Git uses for this checksumming is called a SHA-1 hash. This is a 40-character string composed of hexadecimal characters (0–9 and a–f) and calculated based on the contents of a file or directory structure in Git. A SHA-1 hash looks something like this:
24b9da6552252987aa493b52f8696cd6d3b003733 States
Commands
- Init
- Add
- Commit
- Push
- Clone
- Pull
- Checkout
- Log
- Status
- Remote
- Tag
What is Github?
You may have heard that GitHub is a code sharing and publishing service, or that it’s a social networking site for programmers. Both statements are true, but neither explain exactly why GitHub is special.
TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/what-exactly-is-github-anyway/
git + social = github
or
git + collaboration = github
Windows Client
http://windows.github.comWhy use Github for IT Documentation?
- Idea
- Collaboration
- Ship