mahara uk 2011 technical day - git for mahara

Mahara UK 2011 – Technical Conference21st June 2011

Andrew Nicols

Git in Mahara

Git in Mahara

• What is Git?• Some of the Basics• Remotes• Branch, Branch, Branch!!!• Rebases and Merges• Splitting and Squashing• Other Cool Stuff• Q&A

What is Git?

• Free• Open Source• Distributed Version Control System• Every Git Clone is a full-fledged repository

• Complete History• Not network dependent• No requirement for central server• Very fast

Some Basics

• git clone

• git init

• git add

• git add –p

• git commit

• git commit --amend

• git log

• git log –stat=500

• git log -p

• git status

• git diff

• git diff --cached

Remotes

Git is great for collaborative working

It allows you to have multiple remotes

git remotegit remote showgit remote addgit fetchgit push

Branch, Branch, Branch!!!

Branches are cool

Branches don’t suck in Git (yes I know they do in subversion)

git checkout –b <branchname>git branchgit branch --all

Rebases and Merges

Rebase rewrites history

Merge combines histories

Rebasing changes the parent of a commit

Don’t use rebase if you’re going to step on someone elses toes

git rebase origin/mastergit rebase gerrit/mastergit merge my_local_branch

Rebases and Merges

Rebases and Merges

Rebases and Merges

Rebases and Merges

Splitting and Squashing

Re-write your commits before you make them public

Keep things tidy

git edit –i HEAD~3

Other Cool Stuff

git grepgit cherry-pickgit format-patchgit bisectgit refloggitkgit shortloggit archive

Q&A