Using Git and BitBucket

Git and BitBucket
Medhat Dawoud

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This workshop will include

Source Code Management Systems

Web-Based Code Hosting

Popular open source projects using SCM

Intro to Git

Let’s try Git Commands

Bitbucket as a web code server and management tool

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Source Code Management System

• It’s a way that we use to store projects’ source
code files in a tree of versions.

• With no deal, all those SCMs creators build them
on the same rules and structure.

• A lot of popular open source projects source
codes are collected together all over the world
using SCM systems.
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SCM Systems Examples

Lots of this type of software was created like:

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Web based Code Hosting

• We can use SCMS on our machine locally that
manage the code for you and create versions.

• but you can also host your code on web, this
solution make it very secure and no lose of
data under any circumstances.

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Web based Code Hosting Examples
A lot of Web-Based Code Servers provide Free and paid services Like:

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Popular projects that use web-based code Hosting
and Source Code Management Systems

Source1: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitProjects
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Source2: https://github.com/popular/starred

SCMS

• We approved before when we start that all SCMSs are built on
the same structure without any deal between them.

• Those all are called Source Code Management Systems
(SCMSs).

• Main task of any SCMS is to:
 Track changes to files.
 Repository / database of changes
 Working directory / current state

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SCMS Operations

We can sort operations that we can do
with any SCMS into 4 main categories:
 Bootstrap (init, checkout, switch branch)

 Modify (add, delete, rename, commit)

 Information (status, diff, log)

 Reference (tag, branch)

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Types of SCMS

There are 2 types of SCM systems:

 Centralized SCM

 Distributed SCM

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Centralized SCM

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Centralized SCM

o Examples: Subversion, CVS, etc.
o Everything goes to the server, commit changes to the
sever, checkout the latest revision from the server.
o No direct exchange between developers
o Operations require server, there are some drawbacks:
 Single point of failure
 Bottleneck

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Decentralized SCM

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Decentralized SCM

o Examples: Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc.
o Each copy of repository is identical and self-sufficient
o No need for a central server, but one may choose to have one
o Developers may directly exchange change sets over Wi-Fi at a
local coffee shop :D
o Workflow :
– Clone
– Pull / fetch
– push

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Ok, Let’s Start that workshop now
• Yes, it was just an intro to the Source Code
Management Mechanism and the Web-Based
Code Servers.
• Now to start talking in our session, I packed Git as
our SCM or VCS and BitBucket as a Web-based
Code Server and management tool will be
discussed later.

Are you Ready?
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What is Git ?

 Decentralized or Destributed Source Code
Management(SCMS).
 Superior branching and merging mechanism.
 Support various protection devices against
corruption.
 Supported by various code servers.
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Git History
• 2002
 Linus uses BitKeeper to track Linux.
 And BK gets Better, and Linux scale better.
• April 6, 2005
 BitKeeper drops free license.
 Linus write his own SCM, Git.
• April 18, 2005
 Git can merge.
• June 16, 2006
 Git is officially used to track Linux.
• Feb 14, 2007
 Git 1.5.0 is released.
 Major usability efforts.

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“ Nothing is perfect. Git is just *closer* to
perfect than any other SCM out there ”

- Linus

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Git First use

• If you are using Git for the first time, you will need to
download the server into your machine according to
your operation system.
• Just go to: http://git-scm.com/downloads and choose
the suitable download and install it.

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Git First use continue ..

• If you are using linux you will find a command that
will install Git from terminal.

• For example if you are using Ubuntu you will write
this command in you terminal:

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Git Command line

• Now you have installed Git on your machine and you
can go to terminal or CMD according to you OS and
write any command, for example:
$ git –-version
this command returned the version of Git you have
installed, you should find the result as follow:

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Git Commands

• Ok, there is a general structure of the git
command that all commands use as follow:
$ git <options> command <options>

• Git includes approximately 137 commands.

• Actually we don’t use all of them every day, so
I’ll review here the every day use commands
and let you check others.
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Git Common commands
Add
status rm

push mv

pull branch

merge checkout

log clone

init commit
diff

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Git Help

• For any new command for you and need a brief
documentation for it use this:
$ git <command> -h

• When you need a complete help you should write
the following command and it will open a web
page locally with the full docs for this command:
$ git <command> --help
or
$ git help <command>
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Git Bootstrap

• Open the project work space (directory) and
run this command inside it:
$ git init
this will create .git directory

• This directory (.git) include all meta data
about versions and commits, working trees,
changes, all configurations, … .

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Git Staging
• Staging means specifying files that you will commit to
the server.

• Additions:
$ git add file #This add a specific file
$ git add . #This add all changed files

• Removal:
$ git rm file #This removes a specific file

• Renames:
$ git mv old new #This renames a specific file
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.gitignore file

• You can create a .gitignore file in your project directory
and add files or directories that you need not to add to
the server, examples for unwanted files:
 Automatically generated code (e.g. R.java for Android)
 Settings folder of editors that is created automatically.
 If you are using any dependences on other libraries like in
PHP you can add them to composer.json and ignore them.
 Or any other unwanted files.

• So when you use add all files, git will automatically
ignore the list of files you have written in this file.

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Git Commit

• Commit means to apply changes of staged files or all files to
the repository locally.

• Commit changes must provided by a message that you explain
in what is the changes in your commit from the last version:
$ git commit –m ”this is the message”

• The above command commit only the staged files but if you
want to commit all files you should use this:
$ git commit -a –m ”this is the message”

• This means that the commit command here in applied on
your machine only ??? …. The answer is yes
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Git work flow from work to commit

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Git information

• You can use status:
$ git status
to shows :
• Staged
• Unstaged
• Untracked

• You can use show:
$ git show
that shows the last commit information, changes,
author, and date. It has some more configurations
that customize the result.
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Git information

Git show additions:

 Just shows stats
$ git show –-stat

 Just shows name and status
$ git show -–name-status

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Git information

• To review the latest commits or even all commits on
some repository we use log command as follow:
$ git log
• But you can also limit it to review commits in a specific
period or in some branch or last 5 for example:
$ git log -5
or
$ git log -1 master@{yesterday}
or
$ git log --author=medhatdawoud

• There are lots of additions see in docs or help.
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References

Tags
Branches

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References

• References are used to point to commits.

 To get the local branches we use:
$ git branch –l
 To get the remote branches we use:
$ git branch –r

 And to get the local tags we use:
$ git tag -l

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References

• Creating new branch to HEAD:
$ git branch name
new branch “name” on HEAD

• Creating new branch to a commit:
$ git branch name commit
new branch “name” on that commit

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References

• Switching to branch:
$ git checkout name
• We have option of creating and switching in
the same command:
$ git checkout -b name
• If you are switching to a branch that has
changes, the switching might gives error, then
you should merge with switch:
$ git checkout -m name
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Merging

• If your HEAD is referring to a branch and want
to merge it to other branch, simply use the
following command, assume we have A, B
branches,
$ git checkout A
$ git merge B
Assume that we have A, B, C branches and want to merge
them all in one command.
$ git checkout A
$ git merge B C
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Cloning

• If you have a remote code server on some host
and want to get that repository on local, you
just want to write this:
$ git clone <remote>

• This will create a directory to the current root,
with the same name of the repository you are
cloning.

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Let’s Play with

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What’s Next ?

• Git is already installed into some editors like
eclipse, aptana, … Search for your editor
installation.

• There is a good free book for git, I recommend
it for you to be more efficient in using Git as a
Source Code Management System, check it
from this link: http://progit.org

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An other Easy and Fast Solution

• I’ll tell you about another easy solution for
windows users, it’s a git client with great GUI that
makes every thing for you, it’s TortoiseGit

• Simply go to this link, download and install:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/wiki/Download
• Try it and I will write some more articles about
that later on my blog.
• There are 4 more clients check them on git site.
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BitBucket

• BitBucket is a web-based code server and also a
great management tool for software projects.

• On 29 September 2010, Bitbucket was acquired
by VC-funded Atlassian. Initially, Bitbucket only
offered hosting support for Mercurial projects.
On 3 October 2011, Bitbucket officially
announced support for Git hosting.

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Why Web-Based Code Hosting?

 Not to be confused with a version control
system (or SCM system).

 Not a necessity, but good to have for more
effective collaboration

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Why BitBucket?

• Bitbucket is completely free if you have a .edu
email address.

• Gives any one any number of repositories,
free for only 5 users, otherwise see the
payment on their site.
• Site: https://bitbucket.org

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Creating Repository

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Repository Page

o Notice these buttons in the right.
o Simple design that gives you only what you want
from a code hosting, no noisy design.
o Notice the menu ( overview, source, commits, pull
requests, issues, wiki, downloads)
 This menu has the most important functionality that
bitbucket provide for us.
 In the right of the menu is the settings of repository
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Let’s get a tour in the site features

Try Demos with
Online Repositories

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End of the workshop

Thanks
Medhat Dawoud
www.medhatdawoud.com
/med7atdawoud
/med7atdawoud

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Using Git and BitBucket

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