Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

This talk introduces the Git Version Control System by looking at what Git is doing when you run the commands you need to do basic version control with it. We'll look at how to use Git to do the basics, while seeing how it differs from Subversion, what staging and committing actually looks like, how it stores it's data, how it branches and merges so nicely and how it talks to a server when pushing and fetching. Then we'll look at how to look at your history with log in interesting ways. This should help Git newbies get acquainted with the popular VCS and other Git users get a glimpse of what's happening under the hood.

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[benice898989]

how many Red Bulls did you have prior to this talk :P Great energy man and very informative. Thanks!

[Giuli262]

if your cool you use vim...

nice one :D

[bamojam]

If anybody in my company sees this, I'll be fired. LOL

[narutofan9999]

I'd not recommend it (vcs like git mostly make sense for plain text files, you're likely gonna have a ton of other crap like application binaries in your C drive that you don't want in a git repo), but technically you _could_.

[narutofan9999]

*cough* fugitive.vim *cough*

[Peter Robbins]

Wait, can I version control my C drive?

[Andy Joslin]

vim versus emacs: The eternal battle. There will never be a victor

[Borbuster]

Joke's on him though because magit for emacs makes git even nicer than it already is.

[6580006247]

git means scumbag , stupid programmers

[SinistaN]

real programmers (who by coincidence also use vim and write in c) don't need a source safe and can learn more from the man pages and the source of git than any web programmer could teach them in 2 hours

[Michael Koepp]

Great tutorial, but slow down!