Git Tutorial

Questions?  Go to the #infrastructure-deveops channel on /wiki/spaces/ED/pages/36864779

Teach Yourself git:

For those new to git, there is a wealth of information on the web.  

Here are a few of the E3SM Infrastructure team's favorite sites to start with:

Basic Git

• Official Git Documentation - the manual and cheat sheets   <- Best place to start!
• Collection of Tutorials- from the official site.
• Git: the simple guide - includes pdf cheat sheet.
• Responsive cheat sheet
• try.github.io - interactive tutorial on basic operations

• Git for computer scientists - graphical intro to the Git data model
• Think Like a Git
• Visual Git Guide
• Git: Revision Control Perfected

Specific git features

• Interactive tutorial on branching
• Git Pretty what to do if you have a mess of development in your repo.

Here are a few sites that provide information on how to properly format commit messages. This step is very important because several git commands rely on this formatting.

• A note about commit messages
• Git commit messages (OpenStack)
• E3SM Commit and PR message template
  
  

E3SM-related Lessons

The Interactive tutorial on branching is an excellent resource.  We have created some exercises for workflow steps seen in E3SM

• Develop a new feature
• Integrate and graduate features

Hands-on Tutorials:

These are being organized on a volunteer basis by individuals at the labs.

LANL - Doug Jacobsen (Unlicensed)

            Sildes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1syVrLb-6F-DFcrlRKOVCfSm8-LfqEsF8e9gu-I8_6tE/edit?usp=sharing

LBNL - Jeffrey Johnson (Unlicensed)  date/time/place

ANL - Jed Brown (Unlicensed) 06 Aug 2014  / 3:30pm-5pm / Building 241, A323 (PDF slides)

The SE-team highly recommends using the hands-on tutorial material prepared by the Software Carpentry organization.

Miscellaneous Tips

/wiki/spaces/ATM/pages/46891612 (including solution to X11 forwarding warnings)