Git

The coolest tool on the planet

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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?

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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!

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Pull Requests

• a diff file sent to

  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

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Integrations

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

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Tutorials

• Official git book
• An in-your-face introduction is pretty good.
• A humble, casual tutorial

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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.

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Workflow

• Flexibile tools, means lots of “workflow” options
• how you
  • branch
  • pull
  • merge
  • push
  • Deploy