Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible

Most modern development workflows rely on version control, and most of those use Git. It's easy to follow a quick tutorial and learn a few basic commands--and you should, before listening to this episode--but how much do you know about Git's history, how it compares to other version control systems, or what's actually happening with branches and commits and merges and rebases? Git enthusiast and expert Gemma Anible joins us this week to teach about some of the foundational basics of Git--not "git commit", but how it's actually architected--and then some common mistakes and pro tips. Gemma on twitter: https://twitter.com/ellotheth

Gemma on Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@ellotheth

Gemma’s web site: https://ramblinations.com/

Gemma on YouTube: Navigate your git repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeABW6OU1Gg

WonderProxy: https://wonderproxy.com/

CVS: https://nongnu.org/cvs/

Subversion: https://subversion.apache.org/

Washington, DC legal code: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml

Solo TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(TV_series)

Felicity Kendal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Kendal

Effervescent: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/effervescent

The Ars Technica article where I read about it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/

TortoiseSVN (https://tortoisesvn.net/) and TortoiseGit (https://tortoisegit.org/), both for Windows

Git fast forwards: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/git-fast-forwards-and-branch-management-329977726.html

Image halfway down this blog, “The Git History Is A Graph!“: https://jqassistant.org/shadows-of-the-past-analysis-of-git-repositories/

For what would be in the Git reflog on Github: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/

Git: https://git-scm.com/

Pro Git boo: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Learn Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/

Matt’s Git Cherry Pick article: https://mattstauffer.com/blog/how-to-merge-only-specific-commits-from-a-pull-request/

Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42348-star-wars-the-thrawn-trilogy

Mara Jade Skywalker - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mara_Jade_Skywalker

Ender’s Game - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game   ----- Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.