GIT FirstPart

Git & Github Introduction (1)
Elaine Ding
Digital Developer in Fenwick Library
George Mason University
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Objectives
• Version Control
• Git , Git repository
• Git vs Github
• Setup git environment
• Create a git repository ( adding file, adding folder)
• Checkout different version/ignore files…
• Git tools
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Why Version Control?
Collaboration Versioning Rolling Back Understanding
Scenario : Multiple students are doing a project together

Question: Why not Google drive & One drive ????
source code management vs file storage management
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Version Control Systems
• Some well-known version control systems are CVS, Subversion,

Mercurial, and Git
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Why Git?
• Git :most commonly used software for tracking changes in any set of
files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers
collaboratively developing source code during software development.
• Git has many advantages over earlier systems such as CVS and
Subversion
Subversion Git
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Git History
• Came out of Linux development community

• Linus Torvalds, 2005
• Initial goals:
 Speed
 Support for non-linear development (thousands of parallel branches)
 Fully distributed
 Able to handle large projects like Linux efficiently
 Global Information Tracker (acronym name) 7

What is Github?
• GitHub was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott
Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008
• It is a subsidiary of Microsoft, which acquired the company in 2018 for $7.5 billion
• GitHub.com is a site for online storage of Git repositories.
• You can get free space for open source projects or you can pay for private projects.
Question: Do I have to use Github in order to use Git?

Answer: No!
• you can use Git completely locally for your own purposes, or
• you or someone else could set up a server to share files, or
• you could share a repo with users on the same file system.
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Git vs GitHub
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Download and install Git
• Here’s the standard one:

http://git-scm.com/downloads
• Git Repository is a place where Git can store versions of
our files
• $ cd ~/gitclass
• $ mkdir demo
• $ cd demo
• $ git init
• $ dir /ah or $ ls -a (* .git directory to store all the tracing info)
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Introduce yourself to Git
• Enter these lines (with appropriate changes):

• git config user.name "John Smith"
• git config user.email [email protected]
• --global param
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command description
Git Command
git clone url [dir]
git add files
copy a git repository so you can add to it
adds file contents to the staging area
git commit records a snapshot of the staging area
git status view the status of your files in the
working directory and staging area
git diff shows diff of what is staged and what is
modified but unstaged
git help [command] get help info about a particular command
git pull fetch from a remote repo and try to
merge into the current branch
git push push your new branches and data to a
remote repository
others: init, reset, branch, checkout, merge, log, tag
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Adding a file to git repository
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Adding a file to git repository
• Create a rose.txt file ,copy rose.txt to demo folder

• $git checkout -b main
• Git status $git status
• $ git add rose.txt
• $ git status
• $ git commit -m “my first file checked in “
• $ git log
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Continue…
• Change rose.txt file

• $git status
• $git diff
• $git commit -a –m “new message….”
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git diff HEAD~1 mars.txt
Adding new folder
• $mkdir poem
• copy two text files to that poem folder
• $git add poem
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Adding Multimpule files…
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Checking previous version
• $ git diff HEAD~1 rose.txt

• $git checkout HEAD~1 rose.txt
• $git checkout HEAD rose.txt
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Ignoring Things
• Configure Git to ignore specific files.

• Explain why ignoring files can be useful.
• Copy results folder with files
• Create .gitignore file
• Add
*.dat
results/
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Git Tools
Windows Git Clients:
•Sourcetree
•GitHub for Windows .
•Tortoise Git
Mac Git Clients:

•GitUp
•GitBox
•Git-Xdev
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Thank You
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Git & Github Introduction (1)

Collaboration Versioning Rolling Back Understanding

Scenario : Multiple students are doing a project together

• Some well-known version control systems are CVS, Subversion,

• Came out of Linux development community

 Global Information Tracker (acronym name) 7

Question: Do I have to use Github in order to use Git?

• Here’s the standard one:

• Enter these lines (with appropriate changes):

• Create a rose.txt file ,copy rose.txt to demo folder

• Change rose.txt file

Adding new folder

• $ git diff HEAD~1 rose.txt

• Configure Git to ignore specific files.

Mac Git Clients:

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