A workshop for installing git, initializing and comitting to a repository, and pushing the repository to github.com.

1. git workshop

2. ABOUT ME Alex York Consultant www.alexyork.net @alex_york

3. “You stupid git!”

4. msysgit Git client for Windows http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

5. Installing msysgit (1)

6. Installing msysgit (2)

7. Installing msysgit (3)

8. Installing msysgit (4)

9. Open “Git Bash”

10. Names with Æ Ø Å Add an environment variable for HOME So that git will not look in: C:sersollesø Right click on My Computer Advanced System Settings Environment Variables Add

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14. First git command: check version git --version

15. Configure your email git config --global user.email alex-york@hotmail.co.uk

16. Configure your name git config --global user.name “Alex York”

17. Generate SSH keys ssh-keygen –C “alex-york@hotmail.co.uk” –t rsa That C is UPPERCASE!

18. Generating SSH keys Press Enter/Return when prompted for file location and your passphrase.

19. Generated SSH keys The public key will be used later on github.com. Pro tip: make backups of these keys!

20. Write some code!

21. Navigating with Git Bash cd /c/Code/NNUG-Hello-World/

22. Initializing a repository git init

23. What just happened?

24. View current status git status

25. Creating a .gitignore file touch .gitignore

26. View current status git status

27. Add to staging area git add .

28. Add to staging area

29. Next: commit After adding (and removing?) several times to the staging area... ... commit to the repository committing is like a snapshot of your code

30. Committing to repository git commit –m “Commit message goes here”

31. Committing to repository

32. Commit log git log

33. github.com

34. SSH Public Key

35. New Repository (1)

36. New Repository (2)

37. You’ve created a github repo!

38. Add your remote repository git remote add origin git@github.com:alexyork/NNUG-Hello-World.git All on one line!

39. Push to your remote repo git push origin master

40. github.com

41. What next? Find something cool on github git clone git@github.com/whatever Fork something Add a feature, fix a bug Create a pull request Start up an open-source project!

42. Based on this guide Git For Windows Developers by Jason Meridth http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jason_meridth/archive/2009/06/01/git-for-windows-developers-git-series-part-1.aspx These slides available at: www.alexyork.net