git

Git

The coolest tool on the planet


GitHub

  • GitHub is not git
  • One of many web interfaces to a git repo
  • It’s a corporation, a website
    • Efficient, open, generous, socially responsible, sustainable company
    • For-Profit
  • Most pro-social company on the planet?

GitHub Niceness

  • Hosts static websites for free
    • no database
    • no python
    • nothing persistent
  • Renders popular file formats natively
    • iPython notebooks
    • Markdown
    • JPG, PNG
    • not PDF?
  • Pull Requests!

Pull Requests

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    The Story

  • Linus upset with hg (Mercurial) and bitbucket (Atlassian)
    • Started inching up his “subscription” plan for Linux
    • Wouldn’t implement important security features
      • friendly with sabatouers from Windows?
  • Linus and LF put their minds together and built git in a week or two
  • Built GitHub in a few months
  • All Linux development happens on git
  • Google just shut down Google Code in favor of GitHub
  • Focussed on efficiency for the user
    • helpful prompts when something goes wrong
    • RTM

Integrations

  • Thousands of 3rd party apps integrate with it
  • You can deploy a complex application just by pushing to GitHub

Tutorials


Workflow

Developers have a workflow like factory workers.

Your work must integrate with parts from others.

Your workflow is how you “play nice” with others.

You don’t need to worry about this.

hack-university is your playground to learn in.


Workflow

  • Flexibile tools, means lots of “workflow” options
  • how you
    • branch
    • pull
    • merge
    • push
    • Deploy
Written on January 1, 2017