git.md

Git

What is git?

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system

I'll skip this part since Goolge provides a bunch of related articles.

Why use git?

• Version control

• Easy to share, work with others

  • Before I met git, I backup my programs in this way:

    /maxis/project
      | awesome.py
      | awesome_05_16.py
      | awesome_05_16_1630.py
      | awesome_05_17_final.py
      | awesome_05_18_final_v2.py
      | awesome_05_19_final_final.py

  • I backup the current one before rolling back to previous version (sometimes I forgot to... disaster)

    $ cp awesome.py awesome_final_final_v2.py
    $ cp awesome_05_16_1630.py awesome.py

  • Now with Git, the directory is super clean!

    /maxis/project
      | awesome.py

  • Git maintains the commit history for me

    $ git hist
    * dc646a6 2014-05-16 | add git notes (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) [maxis]
    * 97f4884 2014-05-16 | Update README.md [Maxis]
    * 7f383c9 2014-05-16 | Initial commit [Maxis]

  • Rollback? No pain at all.

    $ git reset 97f4884

Who uses git?

WE.

an example

This is my favorite guide for using git.

There are bunches of websites providing the git service; here I take github for example

step by step:

1. create a github account
2. add