New to Git

[liv]

I have just started getting back into DW dev after a lonnnng hiatus. denise and kaberett encouraged me to post here linking to my write-up of the experience, particularly working with Git for the first time.

So here's general background about where I am with babydev stuff for DW, from my personal journal. And here's the detailed write-up of my first attempt at Git from my dev journal.

The personal one has a bunch of feels and reflections about DW's culture (and some irrelevant stuff, because I tend to babble and connect disparate things together). And the dev notes one was intended as really detailed notes for my own use; I hope it's vaguely meaningful to other people at least. There's a whole lot of detail about Git and about making preview images, because those were new to me, and very limited information about S2 and Bugzilla and Dreamhacks, because those aspects I was already familiar with from my previous volunteering stint.

Basic Overview of Workflow

[cadenzamuse]

I had three questions that I got answered in IRC today, which I documented in my journal here: [http://cadenzamuse.dreamwidth.org/167277.html]

1: What does the basics of "doing dev work" look like, step-by-step? If I want to code something, what do I do?

2: When I'm done mucking around with my Dreamhack for the day, what do I do to clean up and shut down?

and

3, which is a more esoteric question: What does it mean that Perl is an "untyped" language?