Git Source Control System

• Comparison of Version Controls by Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VersionControlTools.html
• SmartGit a GUI for Git: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
• Git code for Windows: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
• Git SCM: http://git-scm.com/downloads
• Git GUI Clients: http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
• SourceTree Git GUI Client: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
• Videos: http://git-scm.com/videos
• Git for Windows: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
• Git Extensions: https://gitextensions.github.io/

Migrate TFS to GIT:

• https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs/blob/master/doc/usecases/migrate_tfs_to_git.md
• https://gittf.codeplex.com/

Overview

• A distributed version control system (DVCS) unlike SVN which is centralized
• Local branches
• push = commit
• pull = check out
• merge = merge
• Git created by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds
• Design goals; speed, simplicity, strong branch/merge support

Windows PowerShell Commands

• git --version
• this command shows the Git version installed e.g. 1.9.2.msysgit.0
• git init
• Creates an empty Git repository
• get config --global --list
• Lists all the configured users
• git config --global user.name "William"
• Creates a global username
•  echo "Hello, Git" > ReadMe.txt
• Creates a ReadMe.txt file
• git add ReadMe.txt
• Adds the ReadMe.txt into the Git Repository and make it trackable
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