University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group


/share/b/pub/git.help
/share/b/pub/github.help
								 Dec 9, 2019


CONTENTS:

	Git on the Instructional Systems
	Github Servers
	Gitlab, Gitolite
	SVN, Mercurial


Git on the Instructional Systems
--------------------------------

  Git (http://git-scm.com/) is installed in:

  /usr/bin/git on our Linux systems

  Students can ssh into those computers and run it.  The locations and 
  hostnames of the computers can be listed via
  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/clients.cgi

  On the Linux boxes, git gets updated automatically with other updates.  
  If you get the git error "SSL certificate problem... certificate verify
  failed" that is probably because you are on one our older (non-Linux)
  UNIX computers.  You can bypass this error by running, for example:

  env GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone https://...

Github Servers
--------------

  Two Github servers are available to students and courses at UCB:

  http://github.berkeley.edu is a Github Enterprise server that is 
  supported by UC Berkeley central campus IT group (github@berkeley.edu).  
  Repositories are private by default.  Faculty, staff, students, and 
  guest collaborators are eligible to use it.  Login with your Berkeley 
  Calnet account.  Instructors may request "organizations".   This server 
  replaced the campus code.berkeley.edu SVN server in 2016.  For more 
  information, please see https://technology.berkeley.edu/services/web-development-and-hosting-enterprise-applications/github-berkeley.

  http://github.com is the original commercial site.  Individual accounts
  are free.  Repositories are public by default.  Instructors can obtain 
  educational grants from Github for "organizations" that allow the 
  instrucutor to manage private repos of the students in their classes 
  (http://education.github.com).

Gitlab, Gitolite
----------------

  Some instructors have set up local git repositories under the course 
  account on the EECS Instructional Linux systems, using either 
  Gitlab (https://about.gitlab.com/features/#community) or 
  Gitolite (http://gitolite.com/).
 
SVN, Mercurial
--------------

  Please see /share/b/pub/svn.help or /share/b/pub/mercurial.help.



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