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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Git Fundamentals

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about Git fundamentals — what it is, why you need it, best practices, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 03:12 - What is Git? 04:16 - Why do you need it? 06:31 - UI vs command line 09:03 - Commands 101 https://git-scm.com/ init .gitignore file is key right off the bat add add -p - quick review of all the changes you’ve made commit Multiple adds and commits Commit messages should be descriptive push What are origins? pull clone checkout merge fetch stash fork Merge vs pull request Git vs GitHub / Alternatives Bitbucket GitLab 44:25 - Common issues Merge conflicts Files being tracked unintentionally “How do I delete file from GitHub?” git rm -r alias gri="git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard | xargs -0 git rm -r" Databases in Git? 49:10 - Git clients https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis CLI “Hub” Github CLI GitHub desktop app VS Code integration Source tree Kraken Tower Links VS Code GitLens GitHub Bitbucket GitLab Drupal GitKraken Tower ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: What Had Happened Was Podcast Wes: Yeti Products Shameless Plugs Scott: React For Everybody - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax. Scott just tried to start the show there. I start the tasties. Scott starts the hasteies.

0:20.0

This is a show. We're going to do another fundamentals episode and I can't believe this is not one that we thought about.

0:28.8

It's got just a message music. Hey, we've never really done like aIT episode on what are the fundamentals really just

0:34.8

doing an explainer episode so that's what we got for you today.

0:38.1

We are sponsored by two awesome companies. First one is Century, which is going to do all of your

0:44.3

error and exception tracking and fresh books, which is Cloud Accounting. My name is

0:49.2

Wes Boss. I'm a developer from The Hammer, and Scott is with me. How you doing today, Scott? Hey! I am doing good. I was trying to think of a cool nickname for for I was Scott from Mile High.

1:04.6

Yeah.

1:05.2

Oh, really?

1:05.9

Yeah, that's what they called Denver

1:06.9

because it's a mile high in elevation.

1:08.8

Yeah, our football stadium was the mile high

1:11.2

for a long time and now it's something else. But yes, I am here and I'm with

1:15.9

Wesen the hammer ready to talk about GIT because if there's something that any

1:22.4

beginner web developer knows is there's nothing more likely to make you want to run and grab your hammer from the garage and smash your computer than some good old fashion confusion withinIT because this is a topic that trips up a lot of people

1:35.9

especially when they've never used any kind of version control in the past so I'm

1:40.0

really excited to talk about get fundamentals and I'm also excited to talk about Get Fundamentals,

1:43.0

and I'm also excited to chat with you about it,

1:45.5

Wes, because I don't know, we don't talk about

1:47.8

Get stuff that much, even when we're just chit-chatting.

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