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[Mark Saad]

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All
 See below , should we ping Alfred and see if he is up for talking
about this at the con ?
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> On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hello !
>
> At the November 7, 2013 devsummit I will giving a workshop/talk that will be a hands on walkthrough of how we manage our FreeBSD changes.
>
> The talk will cover:
> 1) A discussion at very high level on how git works that will include a hands-on portion where we examine some of the git meta data.
> We will cover how branches are made.  How remote branches are handled.
> The goal of this portion of the talk is to dispel much of the magic and worry when doing things with git.
>
> 2) How to take FreeNAS and migrate it to a newer version of FreeBSD.
> We will cover the "git rebase" command.
> The goal is to show how relatively easy it is move your code onto a newer version of FreeBSD.
>
> 3) Using github and your account.
> We will cover "forking" on github and pushing the resulting work to your personal repository.  We will then make some trivial changes to our custom version of FreeBSD/FreeNAS.
> The goal is to show how easy it is to get an external developer access to your code with minimal administrative overhead.
>
> 4) QA
> Floor will be open to git questions.  It is not guaranteed that all answers will be known, but we will give it a shot.
>
> For this workshop the following preparation is asked:
> 1) Perform a "git clone https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git" (note this can take about an hour and 1GB of space) onto a disk with decent access time.  (no usb keys please).
> 2) Create yourself a github account and write down the password.
> 3) Setup an ssh key with github.
>
> The talk goes for about 1:30.  Looking forward to seeing you all.
>
> -Alfred Perlstein
> VP Software Engineering, iXsystems.
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