Git + Github Workflow

Git Workflow Model

• "Star" model: Github has central "upstream" repo plus one "downstream" repo per dev; also each dev has "local" repo

• Best to make a Github "Organization" for the project, the project repo(s) owned by the organization, all devs owners / managers of the organization and project

• main (formerly master) branch of repo always represents something usable by outside folks; some kind of dev branch structure for temporarily breaking changes etc

Git Work

• Work is done on "local branch", then pushed up to dev's downstream repo, then "pull request"ed for central repo.

• Someone on the team not the original dev reviews and accepts the PR (or not)

• When the dev branch is in good shape, merge to the main branch

Github Resources

• Issue Tracker; PR manager

• "Project" (Kanban) Board

• "Pages" web hosting; wiki

Getting Help

• Github has excellent tutorials on almost everything

• I can help also

• A lot of it is just familiarity, so use it to learn it