Git Fundamentals

Advantages of DVCS

Different topologies

• Centralized

  • Developers push changes to one central reposity

• Hierarchical

  • Developers push chagnes to subsystem-based repositories
  • Sub-system repositories are periodically merged into a main repository

• Distributed

  • Developers push changes to their own repository
  • Project maintainers pull changes.

• Realible branching/merging

  • Feature branches
  • Always work under version control
  • Applying fixes to different branches

• Full local history

  • Compute repository statistics
  • Analyze regressions

About git

• Created by Linus Torvalds, who also created Linux
• Prompted by Linux-BitKeeper separation

• Design goals

  • speed
  • Simplicity
  • Strong branch/merge support

Configuring Git

• System level configuration

  • git config --system

• User level configuration

  • git config --global

• Repository level configuration

  • git config