Lokesh Puppala
Introduction
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Git - Distributed version control system
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Initiated by Linus Torvalds
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Strongly influenced by Linux kernel development and Andriod development
Version Control
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History
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Parallel Development
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1.
Multiple Independent efforts
2.
Multiple people on one line of development
Implementation flavors: centralized or distributed
Centralized version control
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History in one repository
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Clients only get a single version
per checkout
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All commits go into the one repository
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SVN, Perforce
Distributed Version Control
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Each user has at least one copy of the repository
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Each user repository holds the full history
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Git
Visualization
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Cannot work with low network speed
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Single point of failure
Git Flow
Git Branching
Git Growth
Popular projects
Disadvantages
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Overwhelming to learn
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Documentation mostly through man pages
Thank you!