Code

Management:
Git
Thong Kuah
<Thong.Kuah @ gmail.com>
A Coders Carol
presents
Crash Dummy Coding

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugbbq/3853099883/sizes/l/
New version
Here's another change

And another change

I prefer the first one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemimagibbons/3973603289/
Hey! Success!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/378641553/
Teamwork ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanwalsh/3924222303/
cat_generator.sh
That's mine! Mine!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9588236@N02/1454642584/sizes/l/
 I know!

cat_generator.bak
cat_generator.backup_file
cat_gen.do_not_delete
cat_generator.alice.1
cat_generator.bob.2
N^2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2065927225/
Marty McFly

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BTTFTimelines.png
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flying_cloud/2667225198/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/414120961/sizes/o/
Fix it.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Software_spanner.png
Who dunnit?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/3577065653/
Where's the problem?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvery/2414538926/
Re-occurences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tveskov/3387394098/sizes/o/
So, what do we
need ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattwright/1787856/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/2784231777/sizes/o/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arrows-orphan.svg
Version Control
 Version Control

● Storage
● Keeps multiple

versions
● Handles changes from

multiple sources
 Experiments

Work with others

Run multiple
versions

Deploy to
production

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revision_controlled_project_visualization-2010-24-02.svg
Version Control

Basics
 Basics

●You get code

●You change code

●You share your

changes
 Basics

●You checkout
●You change code

●You commit
 Basics

● You checkout
Checkout

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
 Basics

●You checkout
●You change code
Change code

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
...change file...
 Basics

●You checkout
●You change code

●You commit
Commit

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
Again?
Checkout

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
Change code

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
...change file...
Commit

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
Every version is recorded

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
Every change is recorded

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
 Basics (II)

●Others get your code

●Others change code

●You get new version

 Basics (II)

●Others checkout
●Others change code

●You update
 Basics (II)

●Others checkout
●Others change code

●You update

●And around it goes

Sharing is good

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/sizes/o/
The full picture

Tools
&
Practices
 Tools

●SVN
●Git

●Mercurial

●etc...
 Practice is up to you & your team

http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3752994778/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahnmyrrh/3633346069/
 Summary

●Version Control is a must

●Use best practice

●Use good tools

●Version control basics

 Further Information
● http://gitref.org/index.html
● http://progit.org/
● SVN Red Book
● http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-
guide-to-version-control/
● http://www.swc.scipy.org/lec/version.html
 Credits, Attribution
● http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlieferrari/49323751/sizes/o/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickwheeleroz/2475011402/sizes/l/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/2123789106/sizes/l/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/7506006@N07/513417996/in/set-72157600264508078/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/7506006@N07/513453021/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattwright/1787856/sizes/l/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/sizes/o/

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelrusinski/533767098/sizes/o/

● http://commons.wikimedia.org

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmirr/529688823/sizes/o/
Questions?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gattomimmo/318700028/sizes/o/
Git
Git

http://progit.org/book/ch1-3.html
Workshop time
Ask lots of questions
http://github.com/
kuahyeow/git-
workshop