What: Drupal Cafe: Learning Git, part II
When: Wednesday, 9/22, 6:30pm
Where: JP Licks, Jamaica Plain, http://www.jplicks.com/all_locations.html (off the Green Street T stop, orange line)
Why: If not now, when?
Who: You
Unless everyone else mastered Git after I left at 8:30 last week, I propose we do Git round II at this weeks's Drupal Cafe in JP.
Personally, I'd really like to master the art of undoing messy mistakes and "cherry picking" commits. Seeing how many people were just getting started with Git last week, I suspect these topics would be helpful to other folks in the group too.
For folks who will be joining us for the first time this week, I recommend doing a few simple things to get yourself up to speed:
1. Go to github.com and create an account.
2. Follow Git Hub's instructions to get git working on your machine.
3. Pat yourself on the back for getting started using version control, then come join us at JP Licks at 6pm Wednesday.
Comments
Also if anyone understands
Also if anyone understands how "rebasing" works, I'd like to understand that better.
Here's a tip I learned recently: if you want to use branches as folders (e.g. to store config files in a git repository), you can initialize a repo (
git init), then set the starting branch (instead of the default "master"):git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/NEWBRANCH(replace 'NEWBRANCH')then
git addyour files,git commit,git remote add REMOTE(the Github repo URL),git push origin NEWBRANCH.Do that for each config directory you want to track (I have "subdirectory" branch names like server1/apache) and you'll have version control on all your configuration.
Ben
Drupal Cafe in JP tomorrow at 6pm not 6:30pm
Sorry for any confusion I created about the time of this week's Drupal Cafe. My post earlier in the week said 6pm in the subject line and 6:30pm in the body. To clarify....
What: Drupal Cafe: Learning Git, part II
When: Wednesday, 9/22, 6:00pm
Where: JP Licks, Jamaica Plain, http://www.jplicks.com/all_locations.html (off the Green Street T stop, orange line)
Why: If not now, when?
Who: You
Bryan
I'm in!
Sorry for helping derail things with cheeseburgers last week. Looking forward to the do-over.
P.S. 6? or 6:30? The posting says both 6 twice and 6:30 once, so presumably 6:00.