rahaeli's first foray into github: a step-by-step travelogue

[denise]

Tonight I decided I was going to figure out Git and Github enough to make a patch using it! Behind the cut is my adventures in Git-itude, detailing all the steps I took (and all the false starts, too.) I'm pretty sure this is all correct, but I haven't fact-checked the post with somebody who knows more than I do, so caveat lector (and if you spot an error, please do tell me so I can correct it!)

This post is also a bit vague on some process bits that we haven't decided yet, so when we flip the switch and move to using Github for development wholesale, some of these bits will look a little different. I just wanted to demystify the process a little, since I know that I was feeling a little trepidatious about this (AUUUGH, CHANGE IS SCARY) until I got into the guts of it and started playing around and realized how much nicer this process is going to be!

So, this is a log of the playing around I did tonight. :)

( Watch me flail! Watch me figure it out! )

And thus ends my first forays into git! There's a bunch of other stuff we'll need to go over, such as what to do if somebody else has made changes to the master DW branch while you were working on your patch, but that's a little bit hard to explain with words (usually it requires diagrams, although one of the talks I attended today had schwern demonstrating it with Tinkertoys) so I'll hold off on that until another day. :)

Git for Toddlers

[denise]

Yesterday I went to schwern's "Git for Toddlers", an explanation of how git works using Tinkertoys. It was awesome and very helpful. There aren't any slides, but there's video of a previous iteration of the talk, so anybody who wants to watch it can:

Git for Ages Four and Up from OSDC!