[WFS-India] Report on the Git workshop last night

[Kaustav Das Modak]

This is an informal report on the Git workshop on #wfs-india last night.

The workshop was conducted in #wfs-india. That channel was muted for 
participants. All mentors were given operator status and bots were given 
voice. Participants were given voice when necessary.

All participants were encouraged to ask questions through wfs-classbot 
and they did ask questions there. They were also asked to put their 
questions in #wfs-india-questions for further help.

My last count suggested we had 32 participants. I might be wrong here as 
I was busy conducting the workshop. Please rectify if you have a 
different figure.

Entire log is available at:
   - #wfs-india: http://irclogs.wfs-india.org/wfs-india/2013/06/15.txt
   - #wfs-india-questions: 
http://irclogs.wfs-india.org/wfs-india-questions/2013/06/15.txt

Participants started joining in from 6:16pm. We helped participants 
setup Git till around 6:45 pm. The workshop began at 6:47pm by muting 
#wfs-india and with a welcome note from Satabdi.

After all mentors had introduced themselves, Kaustav (me) went on with 
the first leg of the workshop. I covered basics of version control 
systems and explained concepts and terminologies associated with VCS 
that we would cover in the workshop. From 6:55pm to 7:39pm.

An outline of my talk is available here: 
https://github.com/kaustavdm/git-workshop-content/blob/master/content.md

This was followed by some interesting questions from the participants. 
Tarashish was prompt in managing the channel, muting and unmuting 
participants when needed. Tarashish and Debamitro together were helpful 
and prompt in replying to participants' queries on both the channels, 
particularly on #wfs-india-questions. Some of the questions had spilled 
over to Satabdi's session.

Next, Satabdi explained the git commands necessary to create commits and 
for basic interactions with git on the commandline. She covered viewing 
revision history in through git log as well. From 7:40pm to 8:15pm.

Questions from participants as this stage onwards were asked mostly 
through the wfs-classbot. The other channel remained mostly unused, 
apart from a few questions periodically.

Next, Aruna explained ammending commits using git commit --amend, 
followed by an explanation of using gitignore to ignore files from the 
repository. From 8:15pm to 8:42pm.

Aruna's last part of the track was cloning remote repositories, but it 
was covered by me as she had to leave. From 8:43pm to 8:51pm.

After that the workshop was ended with a note of thanks and participants 
were asked to provide their feedback.

Satabdi and Debamitro helped participants having further queries for 
another 20 minutes.

The mentors' team worked excellently together. The pattern in which the 
workshop was conducted proved pretty useful. There was almost no chaos 
during the workshop, though it did not interfere participants from 
asking questions. Participants were co-operative as well, and proved 
comfortable working on the commandline.

Thanks.
-- 
Kaustav Das Modak,
Partner,
CodeBinders Web Development Services LLP
Web: www.codebinders.com
Phone: +91.9874456551