Workshops/Git Workshop

Topics (draft)

• Git is a 'stupid content tracker'
  • Why track content?
  • Key Git concepts
• Tracking your content locally
  • Setting up Git for the first time
  • git init
  • The staging area
  • git add and git commit
  • What's going on? git status and git diff
  • What has been going on? git log and git show
  • Getting help
• Branches
  • Why branch?
  • Creating a branch
  • Moving between branches
  • Merging branches
• Working with remotes
  • What is a remote?
  • Cloning from a remote
  • Getting new commits from a remote
  • Sending your commits to a remote
• Miscellaneous/Advanced Git
  • Ignoring files
  • Using and abusing the staging area (including stashing)
  • Rewriting history (git rebase and friends)
  • Finding out where things went wrong: git blame and git bisect
  • The reflog
  • Tags

Suggestions

Please add ideas for topics you'd like covered!

• Naming and Addressing Things (suggestion from --PhilJones)
  • Often I try to look something up in the git documentation and the terminology can be confusing, if you come from other SCMs.
    • A clear explanation of what is exactly meant by HEAD.
    • How you refer to "the most recent commit" or "last Tuesday's commit" or "the second to last commit made by John that I pulled in this morning".
• As a total newcomer I would favour a ground up, assume no prior knowledge version. Thanks. -- SpikeUK
• It'd be great if we could collaboratively compile a cheat sheet during the workshop. I primarily use Hg for personal projects so always find myself having to doc hunt when I intermittently need to do anything with Git beyond clone & pull basics and that's when I get all confuzzled 'cos the docs assume comprehensive knowledge and semi-informed confusion is dangerous with SCMs! -- Anthony
• Related to my above point, maybe we should collate a set of use cases/common workflows. -- Anthony