Cheuk Ting Ho
Developer advocate / Data Scientist - support open-source and building the community.
What is ?
Starter guide for absolute beginners
Grab this slide deck:
slides.com/cheukting_ho/what-is-git
"Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Have you ever make a copy of a file before editing it because you want to keep an old verison "just to be save"?
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There are a few benifits of version control:
1. Time travel - no more "final verision" and "final final version"
2. Collaboration - different people can work on the same file without accidentally changing others work
3. Tracebility - record all the changes that is made (and who made it)
But how? Knowing how git works
README
Rakefile
lib/simplegit.rb
But how? Knowing how git works
What is...
Branch / Merge 🌱
What is...
Rebase ⚾
What is...
Cherry Pick 🍒
How about
Get an account: github.com
Fork 🍴 ?
PR 🎤 ?
Fork means that you make a copy of the repo and put it under your account
PR = Pull Request. You send your changes "as a message" to ask the repo owner to accept your change (upstreaming)
Work flow
Let's try
http://bit.ly/1st_pr
Q & A time
bring in you "Oh sh*t git" questions
git for data terminusdb.com
Python tutorial every Sunday 2pm UK time
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What is Git
By Cheuk Ting Ho
