Version Control with Git

Resources:

• Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon (extensive)
• TortoiseGit: The coolest Interface to Git Version Control. It is a port of TortoiseSVN for Git.
• Git Immersion: Git Immersion is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.

Github

• Extremely popular code sharing platform, and the home of a plethora of open source projects.
• Solid tools for software development: issue tracker, milestones, ...

Git: the extreme basics

• Decentralised version control system (SVN: centralised)
• Git has integrety: everything in Git is check-summed before it is stored and is then referred to by that checksum
• When working, all operations are local and are executed fast:
  • Local repository: add, commit, branch, merge, checkout

• Retriving changes from a remote repository:
  • clone, fetch, merge
• Uploading local changes to remote repository:
  • push