[Gambas-user] About learning Git

[Christof Thalhofer]

Hello,

when I switched over from SVN to Git, I saw: Git is a strange, different
beast. I had to change things in my mind, how to work with a version
control system which is so different like this. Here are the sources,
which helped me to learn and also the tools that work best for me:

I highly recommend the great documentation here:

https://git-scm.com/doc

especially the Git book:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

which is fully translated in French, German and other languages.

I have learned also from a couple of videos, first of all the
introduction by Linus, its brilliant, even when its controversial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

There are also a lot of good videos in Youtube about "Git best
practices", for instance these tutorials may be worth to be watched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVsySz-h9r4&list=PL-osiE80TeTuRUfjRe54Eea17-YfnOOAx

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As you may find out that most of the examples in the internet praise the
usage of Git from the commandline and not GUI tools:

Git is best understood while working in the terminal and it is ultrafast
and very mighty there. I for myself never use a GUI tool, and after a
bit of work with Git, I bet, you won't too.

So these are my tips for working on the commandline:

Use a tool like Guake (sudo apt install guake) which provides the
terminal with one keystroke and switches it off with the same key.

Use Zsh instead of Bash.

Then use https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/

It provides autocompletion and a lot of very cool shortcuts for the work
on the terminal and also provides a beautiful informative prompt like
this (imagine the colors by yourself):

christof at tof-x230 ~ » wd gambas
christof at tof-x230 ~/programming/gambas/gambas ±master »

I write
"g l <tab>" instead of "git log"
"gl" instead of "git pull"
"gp" instead of "git push"

For staging and committing I use tig
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/git-tig
which is in Ubuntu (sudo apt install tig)


Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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