The first thing that we need to do is connect our computer (local server) with the remote server, situated on gitlab, a platform based on GIT. GIT is a "Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency." Which basically means that you can see the changes that you made and connect your work with the work of others in the same project.

This is probably very useful if your are creating something as a group but, maybe, it's not so obvious if you are working alone.

In the GIT page you can dowload the program. It has it own bash console and a visual interface to see version, to manage then you have to use the bash console.

link to the GIT web

There are many information in the web such as tutorials and documentation. Anyway, it's sounds too complex for my needs so I tried with an easier guide and the tutorials provided by fabacademy and fabacademy nodes.

But before start to send love letters between the remote server and the local server we need a secret signal...

To connect the server on git lab with our computer we need to create a SSH KEY, an access credential in the SSH protocol (ssh means secure shell, basically is a way to avoid mean people in your server doing how knows what). If you don't have the same in your computer and in Gitlab it won't let you do anything.

Following Neil's advices I tried LINUX first. So I installed Ubuntu in my windows computer, following the instructions from the Microsoft web: Became a developer, download Ubuntu, open Ubutu.

The black screen makes me feel that a hacker although I'm a little bit worried; I feel that I can write something that will break the whole computer. At the end, I discover that if I write something wrong the console does nothing (the computer spent the whole afternoon saying "I don't understand you") and that's it.

But let me focus. I followed the instructions from Gitlab, which gave me three ways to get SSH, one for Linux, another for windows and a third one for MAC (meh). I tried first Linux and everything wen fine with the SSH KEY. Let me show you.

Wrote "ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your.email@example.com" -b 4096"

Great! Now I'm only need to copy the ssh key in GitLab but to do that I need to use in Linux I have to use the XCLIP command, and to do that I need to install the XCLIP package. No problem, google is an old friend.

Installed. Now, I need only need to write "xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" and go for a beer...

sh... So nice to be true. Xclip it's not working well. I can find the file, or is not working. A very frustrating time started then and I chosed the easiest way: I changed to the Cmd console from windows

I openned the windows console wrote again "ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your.email@example.com" -b 4096", then wrote type %userprofile%\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | clip and use CTRL + V on the gitlab page for settings.

Git lab sent me a congratulations message to confirm my success :) but I also tried my ssh key testing it with the console. I just need to write the command ssh -T git@example.com and the server said welcome to me

Now it's time to use the commands for GIT and get a copy of the remote server in my computer to play and start the second part of the assignment (spoiler alert: I did it, that's why you can read this). I try first using this guide Git - The simple guide.

It wasn't enough so I also used these other ones:
git handbook
fabacademy tutorial
git handbook
small tutorial in google docs

Why did I have to use so many tutorials and manual? Well, This is going to be very funny for you: To get a copy of the repository in your computer you need to write this command "Git clone yoururl". That's what I did it with messages of error as result.

"not found" "couldn't access"... Something was wrong. I though it has something to do with the url that I was using so I wrote many different combinations. I wrote by hand all of them because I thought that It was imposible to use Copy / Paste on windows cmd (don't ask me why), Finally I found my mistake, ready?:
Wrong url: git@gitlab.fabcloud.org:academany/fabacademy/2019/labs/ied/students/hugo.garcia.git
Correct url: git@gitlab.fabcloud.org:academany/fabacademy/2019/labs/ied/students/hugo-garcia.git
I've felt very stupid, believe me. But after this I clone my repository and start playing with git.

I tried some commands more like git log

git merge, git push, git pull... the basic commands to talk with the server to upload or download files

Everything was working fine but I thought that it would be nice to chat with and expert / friend from highschool about the opportunities of git and the best way to use it.

He recommend me to use GitKraken a very complete Git client (a visual interface to use git) used by big companies like apple or IBM. It's very intuitive to use and even let you see the changes or edit the file itself without using another program. We installed together and it looks like this:

This is my friend Díaz. He works as programmer in a start-up and is a real freak of these things. Lucky for me he accepted to share his enormous knowledge just for the price of some beers.

After try the program for a while I think that I will use it during the rest of the fabacademy course. I feel that it's a more powerful tool than the windows console and it shows you more information at the same time about the files in the server, your files and the changes ade in the past.