Git

Buford T Justice

Since it was mentioned on another thread here, its brought up a question I wanted to ask.

I know what git is, and I use it on my own projects for version control. As I'm learning at the moment and I have no commercial experience I have never used it in a commercial environment.

I would add files and commit them when I've made changes, and used reset when I wanted a restore.

Is there a guide available to tell you how to use git effectively? I've found plenty of information that tells you how to use git in terms of syntax and so on, but nothing in the sense of why one would use a branch, or what a tag is for that matter.

Can anyone be of any help here?

cython

Atlassian have a series of blogs, examples and tutorials on Git that would be well worth a look for a question like yours: https://www.atlassian.com/git/

Obviously they want to push it as they sell a Git server offering for enterprise (as well as running Bitbucket themselves), but i find them quite good in outlining the differences with centralised version control, and they have some good workflow examples too.

GreeBo

This is a good guide to using git flow and got in general
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cython

GreeBo wrote: »

This is a good guide to using git flow and got in general
git

Very true, and it's actually referenced from Atlassian in the series that I posted as their source for gitflow. The only criticism I would have of the article there is that depending on the perspective/level you are coming from, there may be certain assumptions of knowledge/sparsity of details in some areas. Very good to dive into if you have any VCS background though.

L.Jenkins

https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=filetype%3Apdf+Git

A quick Google search for PDF files relating to GIT.

PrzemoF

That's not the answer you're looking for, but this is a good one to read if you want to understand how git works [1]
It makes using git much easier if you know what's under the bonnet.

[1] http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

johnpaulhayes

You cannot go wrong with git-scm.com/book