Internet Strategy Guide

@eliw starts off laying down his street cred. He'll be covering how to control the process of version control. As we've been going over the past week, use version control. The talk will be focusing on subversion as the technology but the talk will be dealing with the higher level concepts.
Basic Version Control Terminology

• commit/check-in
• branch
• tag
• trunk
• merge

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@tswicegood's talk is for people who aren't familiar with git or version control. They won't be delving into the the internals.

Installation of git for ubuntu can be done with apt. If I heard correctly (busy setting up to blog), Windows installation will require cygwin. OSX can be done with homebrew. Be sure to verify the install no matter which installation method you. One thing to keep in mind about git is that it started out on the command line and will always be heavily entrenched there. So hopefully your team is comfortable with that.

When you start using git, you should set up your user and email. Config also allows you to enable colors.

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