Introduction to Git

By JT Smith on May 6, 2012 3:00 AM

Randal Schwartz will give a free workshop at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Randal Schwartz, the uber perl monger/author and host of the FLOSS Weekly podcast, will be presenting an in depth introduction to the open source distributed version control system of the decade, Git.

Designed with an emphasis on speed by Linus Torvalds in 2005, git can be used to manage simple repositories of scripts and is used in the larger open source projects such as the Linux Kernel, Perl, and Gnome. Git’s ease of cloning complete repositories and ability to post enhnancements has led to a new generation source code hosting sites such as github and gitorious that help drive open source software innovation.

In this presentation Randal will provide a quick overview of the history, then delve into a detailed review of the features and how git can be used to manage code for various sized projects.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]