Best Introduction to GIT

 

I attended an interview recently, where my interviewers seemed more interested in what kind of Revision Control system I had used than my actual technical skill set. I think they use CVS internally, and almost all the interview questions was around change management, and conflict resolution during code merges. Now I made it very clear that as a Siebel developer, I had got to use very little revision control systems so far, the most common reason being cost. My clients did not want to invest in a full revision control software, as it would jack up the project cost. Siebel’s own inbuilt one-object-can-be-checked-out-only-by-one-person system worked most of the time, beautifully.

But this got me thinking..revision control is a big problem in huge and specially long software projects. I have been hearing a lot about this new free revision control software called GIT, built by Linus Torvalds himself. When I got some time, I began reading about it online.

After going through many text and video based tutorials about GIT, I finally hit pay-dirt when I saw this video. Simply put, the best introduction to GIT and GITHUB there is.

Check it out. Its your fastest way to get started.