Get Better at Git
Attendee prerequisites for this tutorial are listed below.
Matthew McCullough, trainer for GitHub.com, and Tim Berglund, co-presenter of the O’Reilly Git Master Class videos and Mastering Advanced Git videos, will guide you through the fundamentals and a few intermediate elements of Git in three hours of lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises. Since Git can be quite different than a centralized version control system, Tim and Matthew will map familiar terminology onto Git’s more collaborative version control vocabulary and put each new term into practice with demos and comparisons.
Git is a technology that is best learned through actual use, and at nearly every step of this class you will be typing commands and evaluating what Git is doing both on the surface and at a deep mechanical level. With the mechanics and day-to-day commands introduced, we will proceed to some intermediate Git strategies extracted from our O’Reilly video training classes, including rerere, stash, patch mode resets and rebasing.
TUTORIAL PREREQUISITES
In preparation for the Git workshop, please install a command line interface 1.7.x version of Git. Preferably it should be 1.7.10 or higher.
Git Installations:
- https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-mac
- https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-windows
- https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-linux
QUESTIONS for the speaker?: Use the “Leave a Comment or Question” section at the bottom to address them.
Matthew McCullough
GitHub, Inc.
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 13 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O’Reilly, speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, author of the DZone Maven RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.
His experience includes successful JEE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, finance and telecommunications firms in addition to publishing several open source libraries. Matthew jumps at opportunities to mentor and educate teams on how to leverage open source. His current topics of R&D are Cloud Computing, Maven, iPhone, Distributed Version Control (Git), and Debugging Tools.
Matthew resides in Denver with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado offers.
Tim Berglund
August Technology Group, LLC
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He is founder and principal software developer at the August Technology Group, a technology consulting firm focused on the JVM. He is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony. He lives in Littleton with the wife of his youth and their three children.
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@ben hengst: We hope to do a super advanced Git workshop next year. Let the conference know you’d like to have it on the program!
We really value your kind comments about it being the best you’ve been to. We strived to be around for questions and to deliver a lot of value in the 3 hours. Thanks for being there for us!
I think that this was the best ‘getting your team up to speed on git’ talk I’ve ever been to. I was hoping that we would get to some more advanced topics as I already knew the basics but as every time I watch some one use git I find there’s yet another cool trick I could use. Thanks again Matthew for taking the time to answer questions.
@Kirsten Petersen: Wow. Thanks. As a huge proponent of OSS, hearing you say it inspired you to contribute to some projects is the best thing I’ll hear all week. Keep it up!
Really demonstrated the strengths of Git, and even inspired me to contribute to some projects. Thanks for the great session.
Excellent and engaging session. I learned some things I didn’t know, but I was hoping for some more advanced topics and less into material.
Stan, Jonathan, Kevin:
Thanks for the kind words. It was our privilege to be able to share some Git knowledge with you.
-Matthew and Tim for GitHub
Was amazing. Thank you.
These guys really know their stuff and make Git even more fun than it looks from the outside. Well taught and thorough. Answered any questions raised and presented the material in a great organic way.
This event does excactly what the title says, it will improve your skills with Git. Even if your completely new or are a moderate user of the system it provides good walkthrough tutorials to give you more depth.
You may find the session not as helpful if you are a Git power user however, but reviewing the basics never really hurts.
Hi Elyse,
If you want to install 1.7.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) but, like myself, would like to use official packages instead of building it yourself, I posted a simple script to download the .deb files for 1.7.10.4 from the upcoming 12.10 release. You can find it at pastebin.com/TXeMw1CY
Hi Elyse. 1.7.9.5 will be fine (there are a few small things in the new release), but two options for installing the latest are blog.avirtualhome.com/git-p... and
Git via Git If you already have Git installed, you can get the latest development version via Git itself:
git clone github.com/git/git.git
and install from the source (make && make install)
The prerequisites say to load git 1.7.10 or higher The 1.7.11 download button on the downloads page connects to a page that says an Ubuntu system should use apt-get install git-core which installs 1.7.9.5 on my system. Is there a way to actually acquire the required version of the tool?