Version control workshop

Contents:

• Workshop
  • What
  • Why
  • When and where
  • What do I need
  • What if you get hit by a bus and this great resource goes offline?
  • Acknowledgements
    • 2019-02@uOttawa
    • 2019-01@McGill
    • 2018-05@uOttawa
  • Why fossil? Isn’t git more popular?
  • Contact
• Software prerequisites
  • Windows
    • Step-by-step version
  • Mac OS X
  • Debian GNU/Linux
• Shell 101
  • Opening
  • Autocompletion
    • Changing directory
    • Helping yourself
    • Change directory autocompletion
  • File management commands
    • Basic commands
    • Editing text files
    • Searching
    • Globbing
    • Rsync
  • Secure Shell (SSH)
    • Generating a keypair
    • Setting up a new host
  • Terminating processes
• Fossil
  • Theory
    • Benefits of version control
    • Definitions
    • Basic Fossil commands
    • The history of a project is a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
    • Why version control is important (reprise)
  • Theory: Branches and forks
  • Practice: a primetime story
    • Background
    • Initializing
    • First check-in
    • First bugfix
    • First feature branch
    • Bugfix on the feature branch
    • The coworker problem
    • Cherrypicking merge
    • Integrating the feature branch
  • Practice: exploring the fossil source tree
    • Comparing two versions
  • Miscellaneous
    • “I’ve made a huge mistake”
    • Collaborative development
    • Dealing with larger projects
    • Other useful commands

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page