Introduction to GIT Version Control

Using Git for version control of Drupal projects and web sites will be introduced. All examples will be done using GUI tools, and arcane command line invocations will be avoided. The workflow presented will be as simple, without branching and merging. A goal of this talk is to convince developers and site builders that are not using version control that starting does not have a steep learning curve and using it does not come with a lot of overhead. People should be able to come away from this session able to start using Git with immediate payoff, and be able to interact with hosting systems that use version control for code promotion and continuous integration.

Git is selected as the version control system because Drupal is moving to Git. Nothing in the talk should be so advanced that it is not easily replicated in other version control systems.

The use of Features to move more configuration from the Drupal database to the version controlled source will be briefly covered at the end of the talk.