Sep 2011
If you’re a designer, you may have heard your developer friends (or enemies) talk about something called git. Git is the new hotness in version control, which allows lots of people to work on the same codebase without stepping on each other’s toes.
Note for designers: all of this can be ignored. All you need to know is this: git is a magic box.
Unlike other magic boxes (generally known for containing all the evils of the world and/or Hellraiser) git is friendly and largely idiot-proof. There are only a very limited number of transactions most any designer will ever need to have with it. Those are:
If you’re on top of these box-related tasks, you’re good to go with git.
The thing about this magic box is that is speaks a dialect you’ll need to master if you and the box are ever going to be BFFs. Happily, this is also easily accomplished via the below commands. Apologies, you will need to use some kind of command line interface, sorry. The computer you’re using definitely has some kind of terminal application on it, and if you’re using a Mac, it’s even helpfully called Terminal.app.
And that’s it. Congratulations, you know git.