Git Talk FUDCon10

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1. Write some code
2. Do git-init
3. To commit, do git-commit
   • Do a short commit message (for first line browsers), then do more details below
     • The newline character is the marking point, the extra line space makes nice formatting
     • git shortlog
4. git-config --global --list
   • git-config --global user.name "Foo Bar"
5. git status
6. git commit -a
   • Tells git to only stage files that have been modified or deleted, but ignores new files
7. git clone http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/git/fudcontest.git
8. git commit --interactive
9. On fedorapeople.org to get an executable: ln -s /usr/bin/git-update-server-info git-update-server-info
10. git commit test => error: pathspec 'test' did not match any file(s) known to git.
    • == you forgot to add it
    • git status
    • git add test
    • git commit
11. git pull
    • Only if you have no changes locally
    • Merges changes or forces you to fix (as you go)
    • Shoves the trees together
    • Best practice -- avoid running git pull on anything that is r/w
    • Try a rebase:
    1. git rebase
    2. gitk -- GUI view of the repo
    3. git fetch
    4. git commit --interactive is useful
12. git branch -- use only to see what branches you have and what you are in

Branching

1. mkdir foo/ bar/
2. cd foo/
3. git (a branch) foo
4. git (a branch) bar

1. mkdir livecd-tools.master
2. git clone ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd.git livecd.f9
3. cd livecd.f9
4. git clone ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd.git livecd.f9
5. git branchv
6. get checkout --track origin/f9-branch -b f9-branch

Tips

• How git talks to itself is how it talks to you
  • Once you understand git talk, you understand git
• Use fedorapeople.org ACLs to give commit permission
  • As a pre-fedorahosted.org step
• The program giggle is a graphical viewer, but it's not maintained.
• Use git commit --interactive to do a patch, if it is three lines away from other unchanged content
• Use git status before you commit to be sure you are doing what you mean to do
• git checkout == switch to a branch
• master == HEAD (basically)