GitLab Developer Evangelism Team, 7 Apr 2020

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From YouTube: GitInGifs Introduction

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GitInGifs Introduction

This video introduces our #GitInGifs series of videos. This series celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Git with easy to consume videos about git itself - from the basics to the details of the interworkings of git. And in all these videos, we'll use gifs and memes to make git concepts easier to understand and learn!

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Welcome to this new series of videos from gitlab called get in gifts over the course of the series. We're gonna take a look at both the basics of get, as well as some of the details behind how git actually works and all of that as an effort to help everyone understand get even better.

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My name is Brendan O'leary and you can find me on Twitter at a lyric crew, I'm, a senior developer, evangelist for gitlab and I've, been using it for years, but this year is particularly special because it's the 15th anniversary of get the first commit to get in get was made in April of 2005. Of course, git was first designed to be the source code management tool for the Linux kernel. But since then over the last 15 years, get has evolved into being the universal choice for source code management, and it's so universal.

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In fact that even Microsoft uses get today for Windows and a lot of other things have changed his 2005 as well. The face book got to be three characters: more efficient Netflix got to stop worrying about scratch. Dvds and lots of other technology that we take for granted today didn't even exist. It's hard to imagine my life without my iPhone Instagram, AWS and, of course get, but the problem is git can still be really difficult to understand.

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I myself work for a company with git in its name, yet I still find myself going back to the evergreen content that xkcd published about how to understand and use git and, more importantly, troubleshoot get when you get into trouble more often than I would like to admit, and that's not the end of it. Git is only one of the many tools that seem to be required these days for developing and optimizing operationalizing software. It can get quickly overwhelming when we feel like we have to know all of these different tools.

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So that's where the idea for getting gifts came in I want to be able to make it more accessible for everyone and at its core git is believe it or not, pretty simple, but it takes an understanding of those basic building blocks of get in order to gain that appreciation for the simplicity.

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Among all the complexity, I've been privileged to walk that journey in my career and I want to share some of that knowledge in easy to consume videos with lots and gifts and memes just for fun and along that way, I hope that an understanding of git will help everyone developers, operators everywhere deliver code with less stress and more overall awesomeness when it comes to a lot of buzz words around DevOps I'm, a firm believer that breaking down their problems into the most simple form and making them approachable is how we can all help each other level up together and well.

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In the end, that's how I can help myself realize the mission that is both get labs and my personal mission allowing everyone to contribute, because when we all contribute were able to go so much further than we can on our own. So stay tuned there'll be lots more where this came from and I'll be adding getting gifts. Videos all year, long.