1. xkcd.com/1597

2. git

3. and some other tips & tricks & stuff
gitting started
and some other tips & tricks & stuff

4. github.ncsu.edu
Team repositories are hosted on NC State’s GitHub. You give yourself access through the SDC System dashboard. Teaching staff and sponsors have read access.

5. github.ncsu.edu
Utilizing the team repositories allows the teaching staff to
stay up-to-date on your progress
gain insight into individual contributions
easily archive and hand off project data.
Use of the repository we created for you is mandatory!

6. What happens as your project grows, multiple people are pushing a lot of code to it?
It grows and grows - lots of features are being added in - lots of different parts are being worked on simultaneously
If everyone's just pushing changes directly to master, it will get out of hand quickly

10. Visualizing

16. xkcd.com/1296

17. Short summary in ~50 characters or fewer More detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Explain the problem that this commit is solving. Focus on *why* you are making this change as opposed to *how* (the code explains that). Are there side effects or other unintuitive consequences of this change? Here's the place to explain them. - Bullet points are okay, too - Use hyphens or asterisks Put references to issues at the bottom, like this: Resolves: #123 See also: #456, #789

18. - Remember, git and github are separate things.
- Git is the underlying technology, github is a web services and UI platform built on top of git

19. Issue tracker

20. Pull requests
Issues and pull requests facilitate conversations around the code, as well as helping tie related pieces of information together.
We can see commits and other references on this pull request inline, chronologically, with the conversation
We can dive down into each of these commits individually if we want, or get an overview of what's changed between the base commit and the tip of the current PR branch

21. We can dive down into each of these commits individually if we want, or get an overview of what's changed between the base commit and the tip of the current PR branch
Built-in code review features to provide feedback on code changes

22. … or add code review comments directly inline with the changes

23. Projects give kanban-style (Trello-style) project management boards to organize issues and tasks

24. Learning

25. git-scm.com

26. git-scm.com

27. git-scm.com/book

28. youtube.com/githubguides

29. atlassian.com/git

30. other misc. tips & tricks & stuff

31. $ > git config $ > git config --global user
$ > git config  $ > git config --global user.name "My Name" $ > git config user.

32. Someone else's code / modules / libraries. Using a package manager
Someone else's code / modules / libraries? Using a package manager? Weird OS filesystem stuff? .gitignore it!

33. weird OS stuff. DS_Store. Trashes Thumbs
weird OS stuff .DS_Store .Trashes Thumbs.db ⋮ there's too much, just google for some default .gitignore files

34. modules / libraries compilation artifacts personal IDE Settings log outputs GitHub has lots of boilerplate pre-made ones that are good starting points: github.com/github/gitignore

36. git going!

37. Credits
6, 9.
Commit graph visuals adapted from 8.
Branch flow diagram
17.
Example commit message adapted from