Organizing your programming

[JohnM]

Wow this thread has exploded in the last few hours. Yes, I'm going back to GitHub. We already having an organizational account that we created back in December/January and we used GitHub along with the Windows desktop client up until mid-March, which is when we switched from LabView to C++. I cleaned up the GitHub account yesterday and since I'm about to teach some programming to members of my team, I'm going to have each of them who have not already create a personal GitHub account and add to the organization.

So basically we will be using Git/GitHub rather than the stupid idea I had in the beginning.

Also I went into the organization setting and downgraded everybody's permissions so that they must make pull requests and I must approve them. (Good idea MamaSpoldi)

BrianAtlanta, I'll make sure to distribute that video to everyone.

remulasce, definitely a relevant XKCD. We had to do that a few times. Will include that in tutorials for teaching Git/GitHub.

My plan is to teach programming (C/C++) which I still putting together material for. When teaching I think I'm going to require the entire group I'm teaching (about ten people) to all use GitHub for a final group project, and they vote on a single person to be the master of the repository (accepting reviewing pull requests.) This way I'm teaching programming and they have to use GitHub if they want me to review their work. Any suggestions beyond this or to add to this idea?

I'm currently writing up a document on what GitHub is and how to use it. If anybody would like to help me with it, PM me and I'll give your Google account access.

One last question. I'm currently using the Windows GUI client to work with repositories on GitHub, is there any opposition to that?

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by JohnM

So basically we will be using Git/GitHub rather than the stupid idea I had in the beginning.

Not stupid. Naive.

Also I went into the organization setting and downgraded everybody's permissions so that they must make pull requests and I must approve them. (Good idea MamaSpoldi)

Yes, this is a great way to do it. I also give the more experienced students permission to merge pull requests, that way they can work independently.

I'm currently writing up a document on what GitHub is and how to use it. If anybody would like to help me with it, PM me and I'll give your Google account access.

Once it's done, this would be a great document for FIRSTwiki....

One last question. I'm currently using the Windows GUI client to work with repositories on GitHub, is there any opposition to that?

There are a lot of ways to use git. I personally find the command line easiest -- but at the end of the day it's all what works best for you.

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by JohnM

So basically we will be using Git/GitHub rather than the stupid idea I had in the beginning.

Version control gets reinvented quite often. Normally by accident, or by someone trying to "make it easier"

We use Git and Gerrit. Gerrit lets us integrate code reviews into the development process and control the quality of code that goes on the robot. Learn how to do code reviews with github and pull requests, and make that part of your development process. Software is really hard, and the more eyes, the better.

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by JohnM

One last question. I'm currently using the Windows GUI client to work with repositories on GitHub, is there any opposition to that?

I am a big fan of SourceTree as a Git client.

[BrianAtlanta]

Originally Posted by Knufire

I am a big fan of SourceTree as a Git client.

Love source tree. We switched to git at work about a year ago and selected source tree for looking at the branches. I still like command line for basic commits.

We use gitflow for our branching strategy. Master is competition. One thing I'm trying to get drive team to buy off on is that they control master. So using the git flow we create a release branch and deploy to a bot for acceptance testing by drive team. If they give thumbs up, it's merged into master. Nothing goes into to master with out drives approval.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by JohnM

Yes, I'm going back to GitHub.

Yay! Common sense prevails!