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Workshop Git and GitHub

Presentation - what is git ?

1. Distributed version control software
   • Comparable with Dropbox
   • But designed for a very complex use case
   • GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket as git based centralized repository

Git basics

1. Make sure it is properly installed for everyone
2. Using git
   • Command line
   • GitKraken
   • VSCode (+ Git graph)
3. Necessary concepts - with exercises
   • Repository (repo)
     • .git
     • init
     • clone
   • Tracked files
     • add
     • .gitignore
   • Commit
     • log
     • commit
     • Hash
     • checkout
     • diff
     • Blame - GitLens in VScode

GitHub and collaborating on code

1. Motivation
2. More concepts - with more exercises
   • Remote
     • fetch
     • push
     • pull
     • Merge conflict
   • Branch
     • branch
     • checkout - again
3. Standard practices - illustration
   • Pull request (PR)
     • Fork
     • Modifying a PR
     • Code review
   • Documentation
     • README.md