GIT

Jonas Linde <jonas@init.se>

Background

• for the Linux kernel
• speed
• distributed
• cheap merges
• BitKeeper is doing it right
• CVS anv Subversion is doing it wrong

Objects

• files (blob)
• directories (tree)
• commits
• tags

Data flow

• working directory = HEAD + uncommited changes
• index = staged files

Remotes

• clone
• remote add
• fetch
• pull
• push

Work flow

• pull

• fetch + merge
• fast-forward

• change files
• add/rm/mv/stage
• commit

• rebase
• reset (https://xkcd.com/1597/)

• push

Branches

• branch
• tag
• checkout

Conflicts

• merge
• fix
• add
• commit