1. Git Jump Start
Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
James Tupper| ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence

2. Meet James Tupper | @jamesTUPPER
ALM Consultant at Northwest Cadence
Coaches lacrosse at Bellevue
Built Git courseware
Electronics was my first love
Focuses on finding the right solution in each scenario

3. Meet Steven Borg | @stevenborg
Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005
Fell in love with Git a while back, but still respect TFVC
Love focusing on teamwork and the delivery of value to customers
Enjoy presenting with James! :-D

4. Course Topics Using Git with Visual Studio 2013
01 | Choosing the Right Version Control
05 | Git in Visual Studio
02 | Install and Configure Git
06 | Git Workflows
03 | Git Basics
07 | Fix your Git!
04 | Git Fundamentals

5. Setting Expectations Target Audience Objectives
Developers, Testers and those needing lightweight, fast version control
Objectives
Understand Git
Learn to work with Git with (and without) Visual Studio
Appreciate the Git mindset
Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
Some experience with file systems
Some experience with version control systems
Experience with directed acyclic graphs totally optional

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7. Choosing the Right Version Control

8. Version Control Systems
CVS
Subversion
Mercurial
Bazaar
TFVC
VSS
Git?

9. Centralized Version Control - Locking
History

10. Centralized Version Control - Merge
History

11. Distributed Version Control
History
History
History

12. Centralized Version Control
One master copy of project
Master has latest revision
Only works online*

13. Distributed Version Control
Local copy of repository and full history
Use branches to show changes
Work offline with local repository

14. Comparison Centralized Distributed
Hard drive space required for history? No
Yes
Who has latest revision?
Central “master version”
Variable, need to make rules
Where is full history?
Central machine
Local machine
Work offline?
No*
How fast are operations?
Network-dependent
Fast, most are local
Branching and merging?
Reliable, use w/ caution
Reliable, used often
Learning curve
Relatively simple
Relatively hard

15. Centralized and Distributed
Subversion
CVS
TFS
VSS
Distributed
Git
Mercurial
Bazaar