Git and Distributed Source Control
We Will Cover
- What is traditional source control?
- How does distributed differ?
- Why Git?
- Git at Ai
What is source control?
- Central location to store code
- Version files
- Branching: Release and feature management
Why do we need source control?
Why do we need source control?
Backups
Why do we need source control?
Redundancy
Why do we need source control?
Parallel Coding
Why do we need source control?
Deploys
Traditional Source Control
Traditional Source Control
- svn update
- svn commit
- svn merge
- svn copy
Traditional Source Control
Branching and Merging
Distributed Source Control
Distributed Source Control
- Local Commits
- True Branching
- Smarter Merging
- Staging
Distributed Source Control
- git pull
- git add
- git commit
- git branch
- git checkout
- git merge
- git remote
Why Git?
- Easy
- Most widely used
- Wider library of available hooks
- More code review tools
Demo!
git.my.ai
Gitorious setup
- Developer sets up keys (new, or reuse Amazon/Github)
- Have Rush set up a new repo
- Initial commit or clone
Tools
- Commit Log
- Visual Diff
- Jira Integration
Branching Strategy
- Initial dev on master
- Post launch, prod lives on master
- Each new release gets its own branch
Helpful links
Questions?
