git

I found the following online free book to be the most easy to understand and well clarified explanation of Git:

http://progit.org/book/

I am posting here since I really believe this will make learning GIT easy and thorough for many Drupal users. Maybe someone with a feed would consider posting it to Drupal Planet or some other more appropriate Drupal page.

I looked at many Git resources (many on the Git website) but found ProGit.org to be excellent. It really accelerated my understanding of Git.

All the best,
Guy Saban

An basic introduction to Git, where drupal.org version control is heading, and how you can start using Git today. This presentation will be primarily focused towards (Git) beginners (no prior knowledge necessary), however hopefully I will be able to introduce some more advanced Git commands and tricks near the end.

Hello Git Migration Team.
I am interested in sharing plans to teach Git.

In the beginning of July, I will be teaching a Git class to students participating in a summer Drupal learning project.

This is my plan for preparing the class:
1. Personally get more up to speed with Git. I use Git already, but want to read both Git books (the O'reilly one & also the Apress book) Both are mentioned on the Drupal Git resources handbook page.

* http://drupal.org/node/783086

* http://groups.drupal.org/node/64083 (learning Git discussion)


Hello,

I just created a torrent for Quickstart 0.5. New in this version:

- New features:
- New Drupal: Aegir!
- See ~/quickstart/aegir-install-0.4a7.sh.
- Not installed by default, pending beta release...
- New tools: git bazarr
- New IDE: eclipse (thanks DrUbuntu for inspiration and ppa)
- New PHP: imap, uploadprogress
- New Apache: ssl and solr on by default
- General cleanup
- Downgrade php5.3 to 5.2 for Aegir and Drupal messages

Hi! I haven't seen anything mentioned here about helping folks who aren't up to speed with Git getting up to speed with Git (couldn't resist). So -

The biggies -

• The official Git site.

There's some good stuff on here, especially the Book. The Book starts at the beginning, and I can't tell you where it ends, because I just haven't had to get that far with it yet.

• GitHub.

I currently deploy my changes from dev to production using Git. I find Git a priceless tool for managing my codebase and am seeking ways to automate my deployment tasks without writing too many shell scripts involving drush etc. Does anyone use Aegir as a tool to automate git-based deployment ? Please share your experiences

I am currently using git to manage my site-specific projects, e.g. code that lives under /sites in a multisite (single core) scenario.

However, I find myself needing to work on two things that will require a separate repository tracking the Drupal core: 1) one-off core patches, and 2) install profiles.

Gordon's presentation on Git and Drupal from 8th September at the regular Melbourne Drupal meet @Emspace, has been uploaded to blip.tv by realityloop, who also did a fine job of recording it.

Here's the link.

Thanks Gordon, and thanks Brian for organising, recording, and uploading :)

I just thought I post a little information about a presentation I am going to be giving at the October meetup. At the last meetup, I was asked if I would mind giving a presentation on the use of GitHub in managing Drupal projects. We have pretty much switched all of our development versioning to Git at CollectiveColors.com, because it has shown to have significant benefits in our own development processes.

Git makes it easier for us because:

1. It allows us to better collaboratively develop our software while minimizing the impact of code conflicts.
2. Allows us to easily track what we have developed.
3. Branching and merging of repositories is a breeze.
4. It is very easy to turn any directory tree into a Git repository.
5. Git submodules are perfect for Drupal development.

We have learned a lot of really cool methods for managing software projects using Git and GitHub, so we figured that we would share some of what we have learned in our journey so far. Although, I have a rough outline of what I want to talk about during this presentation, I am open to hearing your suggestions, after all I'm not presenting to myself.

So what I am thinking so far? ...

Video tutorial about using Git GUI with Eclipse

http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/2009/08/using-git-gui-with-eclipse.html

direct links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcM1xOiaidk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrPJClD92s