Week 1: Project Management¶

Research¶

Throughout the first week I catch myself enslaved to freedome… It’s been quite difficult to narrow down a set of ideas for the final project when the choices are infinite.

Although, I had this app on my computer, to make mind maps. I set

What is Git?¶

Git is a distributed version control system [VCS] used by developers to track changes in their code.

Distributed: project members has a full copy.
Version: specific “save points.”
Control: managing and undoing changes.
System: the software itself.

Simply put, git is a tool to help you go back to older versions of your code.

Git is not GitHub/GitLab!

Installing Git & Homebrew¶

Git¶

I am using macOS, and git is preinstalled, yet I proceeded to updating it, as I hadn’t used Terminal in a while. First, I checked the version using the following command:

git --version

I then installed Homebrew both to update, and download other software more swiftly including magick for image manipulations.

Git cheat sheet:

Save Work
git status: check changes
git add: select changes
git commit: save snapshot

Sync & Share
git pull: download updates
git push: upload updates

Branch & Path
git branch: list/create paths
git checkout: switch paths
git merge: join paths

Homebrew¶

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”

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// check version again
brew –version

// updating git
brew upgrade git git –version

ERROR: git not installed.

After, I turned to chatGPT, pasted the output and found out that the terminal recognized two gits: Apple’s default, and Homebrew’s not yet installed.

brew install git
git --version

Still giving me an error to which chatGPT suggested the following command:

which git

> if expected output was not /opt/homebrew/bin/git

hash -r

git --version

All good!

Compressing Images¶

Yet again with Homebrew, I installed Image Magick and compressed my profile picture using the following command:

magick Hrach_Barseghyan_Headshot.png -quality 75 Hrach_Barseghyan_Headshot.jpg

// both reduced the quality, and converted from .png to .jpg