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material for git training sessions/presentations

Subject: material for git training sessions/presentations

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6 messages between May 5, 2014 and May 7, 2014.

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Chris Packham· May 5, 2014, 04:18 UTC · lore
Hi,

I know there are a few people on this list that do git training in various forms. At $dayjob I've been asked to run a few training sessions in house. The initial audience is SW developers so they are fairly clued up on VCS concepts and most have some experience (although some not positive) with git. Eventually this may also include some QA folks who are writing/maintaining test suites who might be less clued up on VCSes in general.

I know if I googled for git tutorials I'll find a bunch and I can probably write a few myself but does anyone have any advice from training sessions they've run about how best to present the subject matter. Particularly to a fairly savy audience who may have developed some bad habits. My plan was to try and have a few PCs/laptops handy and try to make it a little interactive.

Also if anyone has any presentations I could use under a CC-BY-SA (or other liberal license) as a basis for any material I produce that would save me starting from scratch.

Thanks, Chris

Scott Chacon· May 5, 2014, 04:29 UTC · re: Chris Packham · lore

Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

The GitHub training team has all of their materials open sourced under a CC BY 3.0 license. They're all written in Markdown and hosted on GitHub. You can check them out here, including going through an online rendering of the materials:

http://training.github.com/kit/
Scott
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I know there are a few people on this list that do git training in
> various forms. At $dayjob I've been asked to run a few training
> sessions in house. The initial audience is SW developers so they are
> fairly clued up on VCS concepts and most have some experience
> (although some not positive) with git. Eventually this may also
> include some QA folks who are writing/maintaining test suites who
> might be less clued up on VCSes in general.
>
> I know if I googled for git tutorials I'll find a bunch and I can
> probably write a few myself but does anyone have any advice from
> training sessions they've run about how best to present the subject
> matter. Particularly to a fairly savy audience who may have developed
> some bad habits. My plan was to try and have a few PCs/laptops handy
> and try to make it a little interactive.
>
> Also if anyone has any presentations I could use under a CC-BY-SA (or
> other liberal license) as a basis for any material I produce that
> would save me starting from scratch.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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Felipe Contreras· May 5, 2014, 04:53 UTC · re: Scott Chacon · lore

Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

Scott Chacon wrote:
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> The GitHub training team has all of their materials open sourced under
> a CC BY 3.0 license.  They're all written in Markdown and hosted on
> GitHub.  You can check them out here, including going through an
> online rendering of the materials:
> 
> http://training.github.com/kit/
Very nice!

I'm skimming through the contents and I noticed you mention 'color.ui = auto' a lot. There's no need for that, it has been the default since v1.8.4.

Cheers.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
Jason St. John· May 6, 2014, 05:01 UTC · re: Felipe Contreras · lore

Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Scott Chacon wrote:
>> The GitHub training team has all of their materials open sourced under
>> a CC BY 3.0 license.  They're all written in Markdown and hosted on
>> GitHub.  You can check them out here, including going through an
>> online rendering of the materials:
>>
>> http://training.github.com/kit/
>
> Very nice!
>
> I'm skimming through the contents and I noticed you mention
> 'color.ui = auto' a lot. There's no need for that, it has been the
> default since v1.8.4.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras

RHEL 6.5 ships Git version 1.7.1, so depending on what OS the audience is using (e.g. RHEL 6.5 Workstation), that may still be relevant.

Jason
Jordan McCullough (GitHub Staff)· May 6, 2014, 22:20 UTC · re: Felipe Contreras · lore

Re: Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

Hi Felipe,
Jordan McCullough here from the GitHub Training team. I noticed you were kind enough to open a Pull Request (linked below for reference) addressing this. We really do appreciate the contribution.
I'll review the PR just as soon as I can, so anticipate a merge with your changes to the `color.ui` soon.
https://github.com/github/training-kit/pull/118

Commit and Octocats, Jordan

Sitaram Chamarty· May 7, 2014, 15:02 UTC · re: Chris Packham · lore

Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

On 05/05/2014 09:48 AM, Chris Packham wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I know there are a few people on this list that do git training in
> various forms. At $dayjob I've been asked to run a few training
> sessions in house. The initial audience is SW developers so they are
> fairly clued up on VCS concepts and most have some experience
> (although some not positive) with git. Eventually this may also
> include some QA folks who are writing/maintaining test suites who
> might be less clued up on VCSes in general.
>
> I know if I googled for git tutorials I'll find a bunch and I can
> probably write a few myself but does anyone have any advice from
> training sessions they've run about how best to present the subject
> matter. Particularly to a fairly savy audience who may have developed
> some bad habits. My plan was to try and have a few PCs/laptops handy
> and try to make it a little interactive.
>
> Also if anyone has any presentations I could use under a CC-BY-SA (or
> other liberal license) as a basis for any material I produce that
> would save me starting from scratch.

I've written and used the following; the first one is a bit more popular (or at least has been mentioned several times on #git)

1. git concepts simplified: http://gitolite.com/gcs.html
2. a presentation on git: http://gitolite.com/git.html
You can use them straight off the web.

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