Version Control and Project Management with Git and GitHub

Here's a test repository hosted at GitHub.com that you can fork and experiment with. It contains an FAQ about git and GitHub that hopefully you will find useful to refer to.
Throughout this talk I will refer to a few Git commands, and I encourage to refer to the Git cheat sheet if you have questions.
We will go through what git does, what GitHub provides and enables, and step through the process of getting set up to contribute to a project hosted on GitHub.
You will need:
- A GitHub account
- The git program working on the command line.

git comes free with the Mac XCode package, for example. You can also learn how to install it for your operating system from the web.

The FAQ in the test repository is being developed collaboratively as an open source project.
Can you see something that needs fixing or improving? If so, post an issue
Can you fix it yourself, even partially? If so, then:
- fork the repository,
- clone it to your local machine,
- edit the file(s) and commit your changes to make a new version,
- then push those changes back to your fork - and then
- ask for those improvements to be merged into the base repository by submitting a pull request.
- You might even need to add a new file.
- If you're making a lot of changes, perhaps they should be in a new branch.
As the FAQ evolves, you'll want to keep up with the latest version.
- Add a new remote, a link to the base repository and then
- pull the changes down from that remote, and
- fix any conflicts that arise.
If you're interested in the project long term, you'll probably want to see what epics are in progress, and what the milestones are.

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