How to use Git - Git Video Tutorial - Part 6 (branch, checkout, remote)

Git Video Tutorial, Branching!

Whew been a fun ride. Thank you all for the great support throughout the series. Really appreciate it! If I could teach and made vids for a living I would =)...even if everyone hated them!

Today it's git branching. Such a great but slightly intimidating feature of GIT. The concept is simple. You create a new branch ("copy") of your project and work on either new versions of the project, or experimental features, all without messing with other branches code.

A great use is on a big project I've been on at work. We split the project up into 3 batches. Each page had roughly 30 web pages in it. When we sent batch 1 (master) to the client, they wanted small updates. However, we still had to work on batch 2. We didn't want to send them batch 2 progress with batch 1 updates, so we made a new branch called "batch 2" and kept our new code separate from our batch 1 code. When the client was ready for batch 2, we just merged master (batch 1) into batch 2 and gave em both!

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Howto & Style

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• merge

[stagi]

125 people forgot to thank you, so i'll do it for them: thank you very much for the tutorial, jason. you're the fuckin man!

[thejacenxpress]

@stagi Thanks buddy! Appreciate it. For everyone else out there, stagi is not my mom.

[rishicomplex]

awesome vids...thanks

suggestion : can't easily read what you're typing (at least at 360p) would be better if you used a bigger font while doing the vids

[thejacenxpress]

@rishicomplex Thanks and agree with the suggestion. The software I use freezes and cuts out frames if I go any higher than the resolution I'm currently using. Kind of a crappy situation but one I have to deal with for now :)

[feschesheli]

Thanks for the Tutorial, also understandable for Webdesigners not only Progammers. Great!

[sirrongsir]

Clear and Fun! You did an awesome job! Can't wait for the Spring Tutorial!!! Thank you!!!

[fabiopagoti]

Great series! Finally I learn it! Thanks a lot.

[Teolearning]

Thank you, guy! You are brilliant!



[morbidforever]

Thanks, helped me out alot :)