Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

This talk introduces the Git Version Control System by looking at what Git is doing when you run the commands you need to do basic version control with it. We'll look at how to use Git to do the basics, while seeing how it differs from Subversion, what staging and committing actually looks like, how it stores it's data, how it branches and merges so nicely and how it talks to a server when pushing and fetching. Then we'll look at how to look at your history with log in interesting ways. This should help Git newbies get acquainted with the popular VCS and other Git users get a glimpse of what's happening under the hood.
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[@laytonmiller2641]

This is the single best explanation of the core git concepts I've seen. Makes sense given who is giving the talk but it is incredibly clear.

[@rothbardfreedom]

"Has anybody been to GitHub?" This shows how this talk is old (and gold).

[@brainplot]

IKR, that sentence made me check the upload date!

[@rivan0396]

@@brainplot aacava\ssvvvcUsap ke kiri atau ke Tekan yang lama untuk memperbaiki & menguncikanan untuk menghapus kartu

[@SergioTerroso]

It's almost 2025 and this has been the best Git introduction i've ever seen. I've learnt more about Git in this slightly-over-one-hour video than in all the years I've been working as a developer!

[@positronalpha]

10 years later and this is still the best talk about Git out there. I wish every Git user would take the time to watch this, because if you don't understand these very basic concepts, you'll mistakenly believe that Git is complicated or hard to use.

[@toby9999]

I believe Git is complicated and hard to use. That's my opinion after a year of struggle. This video didn't do it for me. Nothing after 15:00 made any sense.

[@positronalpha]

@@toby9999 The bit starting from 15 minutes is exactly the simple concepts that lets you grok Git at a fundamental level. I hope you develop a deeper understanding at some point and that you will find it easier to work with after that. It is a fantastic, powerful tool.

[@floverdevel]

After all these years, this is still the best introduction to Git I have ever watched. Great job Scott 👌🏻👏🏻 Still today I recommend this video to every of my new colleagues 😊

[@toby9999]

Hoping it will be because I'm almost ready to have my brain explode. Git is horrendous. Edit: I was lost by around the 20:00 mark. So, if this is the best introduction then I'm stuffed.

[@sushilakaushik1867]

Though I want to ask if you guys know more of such talks and can recommend, would be great to hear

[@pinatacolada7986]

Yeah, this was the best tech presentation I've ever seen. Git & Bitcoin changed the world for the better over a decade ago.

[@5teveg]

What a brilliant presentation. It's fast and I won't pretend I didn't have to rewind a few times, but think of it as a reference. Scott is an excellent communicator. Thanks for sharing. Git really is incredible.

[@arunm619]

I was in 8th grade when this vid came out, In 2021 I am learning from this video now. Time really flies! Great video!

[@DrowsyDowell]

I just finished my OS class in college, one day my professor asked "so...how many of you know how to use git?" everyone in the class said they either never had used it before, or we barely knew how to use it. He just looked at all of us and was like "we as professors have failed you...git is super important...everyone, if you're interested, write me an email saying that you want a class on, or at least an introduction to git. I'll compile all of them and walk into the dean's office and start that conversation" but since this is my last year in school, I'll be turning to youtube

[@troglodyto]

this is a great tutorial because thsi guy is so passionate and knowledgeable, and his mind is 100% on this, and his little asides are as useful as the main thread. best tutorial. the behind the scenes stuff was itneresting too

[@john-s9m3f]

"git lol" is an alias set up by Scott for "git log --oneline --graph --decorate". He starts explaining it at 1:10:28.

[@hiralbest]

Cleared most of my doubts for git.... I feel confident for using git after watching this video....

[@nagpoore]

Indeed a great lecture, didn't fell sleep watching this log tech video after such a long time! Tremendous energy...

[@MrDavidFitzgerald]

I prefer this speed of talk. It's much easier to repeat fast bits than to reliably skip slow bits.

[@martinharrisFTW]

this is by far the BEST talk on git. thank you!

[@colsen10]

Best introduction to GIT ever

[@CoreyRothwell]

The basics explained were much easier to understand in this video than in the pro git book.

[@jmg78]

I have a TFS background so I was really struggling to understand GIT. This finally got me over the hump. Great video, Thanks!!!

[@stableschippenham]

Excellent presentation, rich with information and very clear, thank you

[@fabianrothfuchs]

Your engery is tremendous! Although I had to loop some parts, I never got tired like I do on seminars ... :-)

[@MrJanzurich]

A quite good introduction, to understand git and how git works internally and what are the benefits of git.

[@umreddy4855]

Thank you. Got a good understanding of Git basics by watching this video.

[@mohamedaminebenmabrouk]

great presentation

[@jfedgar]

This was the best combination of both conceptual knowledge + implementation that I have seen. For people who are still confused, there is now a tryGit interactive walk-through at github/codeacademy (trygit.github.com i think)

[@sergelachapelle1557]

Ah! The light just came on!... This is a great talk... Thanks

[@SoeaOu]

excelent presentation and tutorial every IT presentation should get this much energy fom the presenter

[@lintfordpickle]

This is a great introduction to git - really awesome

[@ElisandroDeLeon]

Git is starting to feel like a time traveling movie.

[@JayBazuzi]

I think the answer is "Yes", as in "Yes, the index is a highly specialized branch that sits between the workspace and a regular branch, and can only be manipulated with its own parallel set of commands. For example, 'git add' is how you "commit" changes to the index, and 'git commit' is how you "merge" from the index to the regular branch.

[@floverdevel]

What was the question?

[@SonOfBohl]

"when you do a merge it only affects the context you're currently in" thanks I hope I'll remember that now

[@TT-ud5gf]

Please tell me the best tool use to DIFF and RESOLVE conflicts on a Mac Mavericks. In Windows, I use Tortoise to get a list of files that are changed and use BeyondCompare to actually view the changes.

[@omrikatz2107]

Had no idea that Dennis from It's always sunny knows Git. very surprising

[@prashantwani6343]

Excellent session

[@FAT9L]

Having a branch named "fuck-help" is so relatable.

[@default_youtube_profile]

most of the stuff went over my head just because I dont work through commandline, as new to version control, i picked up that its not just for open source distributed version control and versions management as well.

[@TrainingWithKona]

still the real MVP

[@benjaminstk]

good presentation

[@andrewvergel]

La mejor explicación para los que inician en Git

[@quooston]

The Git. The Git. The Git is on fire.

[@JayBazuzi]

Is the index really just another branch?

[@Pille1842]

Great introduction, thanks very much!

[@skube]

The last thing about log subsets didn't seem to work for me. At least in form: `git log branchA ^branchB`. However the other way did, i.e.: `git log branchB..branchA`

[@gish85]

anyone know what that "tree -a" command was he used? My bash shell doesn't seem to have it

[@EricFarrowTechnomonk]

Great , really enjoyed and learned a lot ,Thanks

[@dwintzeh]

Thanks for this video! Very well explained.

[@cosmicallyderived]

Dang solid talk, nice work.

[@ramaramsa]

great GIT tutorial... helped me a lot....

[@TheFunKing33]

Easy on the coffee before a talk.

[@stableschippenham]

youtube has a decaf button if needed... gear, playback speed x0.75

[@dwaynesurdu-miller9799]

This seems to be an Git introduction for people who know how to use Git.

[@toby9999]

It's way too advanced for beginner's.

[@benice898989]

how many Red Bulls did you have prior to this talk :P Great energy man and very informative. Thanks!

[@JanBruunAndersen]

@TheNawaMan - different parts of the file. Colour at the top, email at the bottom. No real conflict.

[@bamojam]

A quote from him during the talk.

[@mbebeli]

Does that make sense?

[@MarkGeekLee]

really good, help me understand git a lot

[@ChrisKnowles1170]

If you're so inclined you can version control the version control of your C drive.

[@AbsInABox]

Thank you for speaking quickly

[@Bytedecoder]

Nice tech talk

[@GeekBlogTV]

great talk!

[@toby9999]

Using the same local folder/copy for each branch just doesn't work reliably for me. It creates a horrible mess. I had to use a separate folder/copy for each branch to avoid the corruption and conflicts I get after a pull.

[@raguaviva]

thanks, I finally understood this

[@zrajm]

No. The index contain whatevery you've done 'git add' on = the stuff that will be commited when you run 'git commit'.

[@wangervine7644]

Excellent!

[@peterrobbins7081]

Wait, can I version control my C drive?

[@Nick-rg1dw]

#TeamTrees

[@MatticusF1nch]

what was that git lol --all alias?

[@matthias-vomr]

git log --graph --decorate --oneline --all

[@tore28]

Damn youtube messing up my Git commands.

[@ravishankargm9126]

How can i download this video. Can any one help me..

[@kuhanNagalingam]

You can download it from firefox , first you have to add on this (Download KZbin Videos as MP4 ) to firefox addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/download-youtube/

[@coderide]

type ss before youtube you can download anything for example this video you can download www.sskzbin.info/www/bejne/kHW1ZWZpl5V7gLs

[@williamherry]

really nice video

[@erik9817]

gish85, it may have been a git "alias"? I'm not sure.

[@runrin_]

hint: watch this video at 0.75x speed.

[@peter10003]

It was above my head, although breezy and perhaps informative. I understood about 20%, and I have been using github, and Mac's Xcode for over half a year. Not for beginners.

[@joel6672]

excelente, muy recomendado

[@plutonimvamsi]

good one

[@19always]

설명이 신속해서 좋아요. 하지만, 조금 어지럽기도 해요. git merge도 그림으로 잘 설명해 주네요.

[@jaureguijosephgrcc]

very interesting...

[@sdevilcry]

Nice video

[@ToneLearnerGuy]

He uses the word 'hinky' at about 14:00m in. Etymology?

[@haierlisp7381]

Thank you!

[@AndyJoslin]

vim versus emacs: The eternal battle. There will never be a victor

[@digarok]

My naive understanding is that rebase is fine for your own work, but not when working with others. It seems like it effectively removes (potentially) other people's commits from the history/log. I'm sorry I don't have a better explanations. I'm still wrapping my head around it myself. You may have many incremental changes you want to rebase into one point in time before doing a pull, for example. I'll be honest. I have no idea what I'm talking about.

[@boborenebobo]

command line, hello inception of humanity.

[@framais]

Awesome!

[@prashantsingh1096]

I can see lot of linked list and trees .

[@flflflflflfl]

excellent!

[@craigbarnes85]

@ryangannon I think the problem is more that you don't have a point of reference for the concepts he's explaining. If that's the case, you're not the intended audience. Why shouldn't he "do talks"? Because you don't like or don't understand them?

[@rohitbhanot7809]

git log trick thing was really awesome.

[@SHACHAR12345]

Genius.

[@foolhunger]

A little bit internals, but really good tutorial

[@ryanthomaskendall]

Why is there not a simple video on what Git is, how to use it, why I would want to use it, and some examples? I don't care about databases or whatnot just cut to the chase!

[@naveedhassan7399]

Awesome.

[@decilgang]

Is this meant to help me or to hurt me? I'll gladly take your advice if it's meant to help me, however incase you didn't know I'm only 16 and there's not much for me to do...

[@HuaJarry]

oooh, awesome

[@srikanthv2]

Useful, but boy, the speaker talks FAST! I suggest getting the youtube HTML5 player; then hit ctrl+shift+J, and paste this text into the console: document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 0.75 This video is much more enjoyable and more informative at that speed.

[@gunnarMyTube]

Like juice concentrate; add water to your taste.

[@akbrant2010]

best part 1:08 ish

[@mjkoepp]

Great tutorial, but slow down!

[@TomRodman]

Awesome talk, Scott, but seriously, take a deep breath (& a Xanax?), and calm down - I felt like I was going to have a stroke, or an aneurysm with you :-)

[@selfdealloc]

He is frantic as hell. It makes me crazy .. good presentation though.

[@Qw3r3wQ]

28:34

[@kuldeepkewat9698]

kuldeep kumar kewat

[@mgrycz]

true, true ;)

[@Alythebully]

Man, you talk fast. Mind slowing down a bit?

[@tore28]

Change playback speed to 0.5x to listen to Scott being drunk and slow talker :)

[@Mr-WesleySnipzzz]

slow down the video speed

[@UnleashedGraffixx]

why?