"Git From the PowerShell Prompt" with Alec Clews

Join us for the September 2020 Australia and New Zealand PowerShell & DevOps User Group online meeting!

This month we're pleased to have Alec Clews (@alecthegeek) presenting "Git From the PowerShell Prompt."

Meeting agenda (AEST):
7:00-7:05 - Intro
7:05-8:00 - "Git From the PowerShell Prompt" - Alec Clews
8:00-8:15 - Community news & open floor

These timings are guidelines and may move forward or backwards based on actual talk times.

Join us via Team Meeting, a link will be available after RSVPing.

Credit: Photo by Gabriel Garcia Marengo (https://unsplash.com/@gabrielgm) on Unsplash.com

----------

Git From the PowerShell Prompt

Folks in the IT department use and manage text files of various types all day, every day. For example .ps1 and .psm1 scripts, data of various types (such as config settings stored in JSON or CSV files), and so on. Keeping track of changes, looking back at old revisions, and creating special purpose versions can be unmanageable without version control tools.

Git is the world's most popular version control tool. This talk provides a novice introduction to using Git from the PowerShell prompt and no previous version control experience is assumed. As well as using Git locally, we will also look at storing version repositories on the GitHub cloud service.

Things we'll talk about:

• What is the problem Git solves and how?
• A high level overview of Git
• Installing and configuring Git on Windows
• The ten everyday Git commands you need on the PowerShell prompt
• Storing and sharing your files on GitHub
• What to read next

----------

Alec is an IT geek who currently works as a Developer Advocate at PaperCut Software in Melbourne, Australia. He's been using computers since the late '70s (an ICL 2904 mainframe) and he was a MS-DOS batch file (and later UNIX shell) wizard. More recently Alec has been learning PowerShell, he always has Windows Terminal open with both a PowerShell and WSL2 bash prompt available. Recently he installed VS Code on his arm64 Chrome OS tablet.

Find Alec's blog at https://alecthegeek.github.io