[Hallcsw] Git seminar Tuesday, October 9, 2012 CC F113 11:00am-12:00pm

[Brad Sawatzky]

Just a room update on the informal meetings in the afternoon.  F113 is
tied up, so we'll move to B101 instead.

  Seminar:  11:00am, F113
  1 on 1 :   1:30pm, B101

-- Brad

On Wed, 03 Oct 2012, Brad Sawatzky wrote:

> A little more info on the Git stuff on Tuesday:
> 
> Jeff has been one of the top 10 (5?) developers of the Git version
> control system for many years.  A few years ago he was hired by GitHub
> to work on Git full-time.
> 
> The focus of the talk will be about Git, how it differs from centralized
> systems like CVS/SVN, and how to take advantage of Git's many unique
> features.  (I'm sure he'd be happy to talk about GitHub if someone asks,
> but that won't be part of the presentation.)
> 
> I'll work on getting EVO up and running too.  Instructions will go out
> when I've got them.
> 
> Jeff will also be around in the afternoon to meet one-on-one with some
> of our developers and interested staff to answer any questions we might
> want to throw at him.  These meetings will be fairly informal and will
> be in B101 at 1:30pm.
> 
> -- Brad
> 
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2012, Mark Jones wrote:
> 
> > Git seminar  Tuesday, October 9, 2012 CC F113 11:00am-12:00pm
> > 
> > Jeff King
> > 
> > Distributed Version Control and Git
> > 
> > Version control systems are an important tool for managing the
> > development of software, documentation, and data artifacts. This talk
> > will give an overview of open-source version control systems, focusing
> > specifically on the distinctions between centralized systems like SVN
> > and distributed systems like Git. I will discuss the basic data model
> > and operation of Git, and describe some basic workflows for taking
> > advantage of the distributed model. 
> > 
> > Just a reminder.
> > 
> >                  Mark
> 
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