1. GIT version control

2. What is GIT Have you ever wished you could travel back in time when you develop a project…? Have you ever wished you could collaborate with your friend on the same project or file at the same time…? Ever wished you had a fast reliable and secure backup…? GIT offers a remote backup, a possibility to load the project just before the disaster and an easy way to collaborate with your fellow students

3. What do I need https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/http://git-scm.com/

4. Git Extensions Git has a console line interface Git Extensions offers a GUI to ease your daily work with GIT Git Extensions will install a plugin into your visual studio when you install it In order to do solve some ‘merge conflicts’ you should install kdiff3

5. Get your project under control Execise Install both ‘GIT’ and ‘GIT Extensions’ Restart your visual studio and locate the new plugin in the top left corner Create a new project Click on the yellow folder Click yes to initialize a new git repository Click commit and add your project to git Make some changes and commit again

6. Congratulations – That’s it! Now you know how to use GIT

7. Git Extensions,.gitignore 1.Click “Add default ignores” button 2.Add a few more like.exe etc. 3.Click the “Save” button Version control, using Git7

8. Some Details… Branches In the previous exercise we avoided conflicts because we didn’t step back and worked alone. Imagine we change our mind and wants to step back and continue working

9. Some Details… Merging

10. Collaboration / backup Git is a decentralized distributed version control system If you create a remote repository somewhere you have still have an exact copy on your local machine. If you share your remote repositiory with fellow students they get a exact copy of the repository.

11. Working with a remote repository Figure from http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project Version control, using Git11

12. Github.com || BitBucket.org Github is free for open source projects (use general open port) Bitbucket offers a free closed project for 5 memebers

13. Exercise Make a team of 4-5 people Create a project on one computer add it to bitbucket or github Follow the online wizard to upload a repository Add the rest of the team to the remote repository Commit to the projects and solve the conflicts…

14. ‘Feature Branch Workflow’

15. Resources A free book online http://git-scm.com/book http://git-scm.com/book Videos http://git-scm.com/video/ http://git-scm.com/video/ PDF: Git Magic by Ben Lynn Console online training

16. Using Git in Visual Studio http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh850437.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19982053/how-do-i-add-an- existing-solution-to-github-from-visual-studio-2013 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19982053/how-do-i-add-an- existing-solution-to-github-from-visual-studio-2013