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The slides for my GitHub talk

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Who am I?

Blake Hall

  • Student
  • Web Developer
  • Civic Hacker

First off: Git

Fast and lightweight distributive version control

Branching

Rebasing/Merging

Open Source Community

The old way: Email lists

Enter GitHub

Why has it gotten so popular?

  • Free for public repos
  • Forking
  • Pull Requests
  • Issues

Forking

One click and you have your own repository

Allows people to get a copy of the code, work on it, push it up, and then...

Pull Requests

Probably the biggest reason for GitHub's success

Pull Requests

Inline Comments

Issues

Tracking for issues...duh

Popular for tracking bugs, questions, and feature requests

How does this all come together?

Popular Workflow

Find an issue for a project Fork the project Make a feature branch Hack Push to your repo Make a pull request on the original project repo

Other GitHub Hotness

WebHooks: Enables Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Static Site Hosting: This entire slideshow is on GitHub

Stars: Follow projects you care about

Questions?