Git: Git Intro Activity

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Title

Git Intro Activity

Overview

Participants, in teams of 2-3, work through an activity to learn how to install, configure, and use git to manage local repositories.

Prerequisites
  • Command-line operations:
    • Change working directory (cd)
  • Filesystem operations:
    • Create, rename, move, and delete directories and files
  • Plaintext editor operations:
    • Edit and save a file
Learning
Objectives
After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to:
  • Install git
  • Configure git
  • Make and commit changes to a repository
  • Add new files to a repository
  • Remove a file from a repository
  • Modify a file and commit the change
  • Stage changes for commit
  • Unstage changes for commit
  • Explain the purpose of the stage/cache/index
  • Inspect the state of a repository
  • Undo a commit
Process Skills
Practiced


Background

Activity is maintained here: https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity

Directions

Directions are available here: https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity

Deliverables

A completed worksheet and a git repository.

Assessment

This is an in-class, team-based learning activity, and is not intended for assessment. If you really want to assess it, you would review answers teams give to questions and the git repository they produced. You could also circulate during the activity and assess team work and critical thinking.

Comments

Additional Information:

ACM BoK
Area & Unit(s)

Software Engineering (SE)

ACM BoK
Topic(s)

Software configuration management and version control

Difficulty

medium

Estimated Time
to Complete

70 minutes

Environment /
Materials
  • Participants: 2+
  • Each team needs 1 computer with
    • A command-line interface
    • A plaintext editor
    • A browser
    • A working Internet connection with ports open for HTTP and HTTPS
Author(s)

Darci Burdge and Stoney Jackson

Source

https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity

License

(c) 2016 Darci Burdge and Stoney Jackson SOME RIGHTS RESERVED

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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