isabella232 / training-utils

A series of Bash and ZShell scripts useful when teaching about git and GitHub

Training::Utils

This is a package of git- and github-training scripts into an easily-installed package. This collection of utilities originated here.

Installation

If you have Ruby >= 1.9 installed, you can install these scripts into a directory in your $PATH by running:

$ script/bootstrap

Usage

generaterandomchanges <N> <base> <extension>

Generates N new commits, the content of each is a new file named "<base><I>.<extension>" with some random text.

$ generaterandomchanges 3 file txt
[master f377b54] A random change of 27129 to file1.txt
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 file1.txt
[master fd0965c] A random change of 15808 to file2.txt
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 file2.txt
[master a704698] A random change of 26224 to file3.txt
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 file3.txt

$ ls
README.md  file1.txt  file2.txt  file3.txt

$ git log --oneline
a704698 A random change of 26224 to file3.txt
fd0965c A random change of 15808 to file2.txt
f377b54 A random change of 27129 to file1.txt
ec9bce1 Add readme

generaterandomfiles <N> <base> <extension>

Generates N new files, each named "<base><I>.<extension>" with some random text.

$ generaterandomfiles 3 stuff txt

$ ls
README.md  stuff1.txt  stuff2.txt  stuff3.txt

$ git log --oneline
ec9bce1 Add readme

$ cat stuff1.txt
Some random text: 10660

git-graphlive <N optional, 10 default>

Perpetually loop git --no-pager log -<N> --graph --all --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit --date=relative. It's like "tail -f" for git log. It's sometimes useful to have this on a split screen, showing the git one-line, ASCII art git graph.

$ git graphlive 5
* 6cad0b4 - (HEAD, master) A random change of 19964 to file30.txt
* c9fd401 - A random change of 16742 to file29.txt
* d5794af - A random change of 22469 to file28.txt
* b2110a3 - A random change of 32088 to file27.txt
* 75d01a9 - A random change of 12572 to file26.txt

historytailbash and historytailzsh

Perpetually loop through history. It's like tail -f for history. Comes in bash and zsh flavors. It's sometimes useful to have this on a split screen, showing the recent history of commands.

transpose <file>.csv

Generate a transposed *.csv file from an input file.

treelive <depth>

Perpetually loop tree, up to depth folders deep in the hierarchy.

welcome <name>

Prints a welcome message:

-------------------------------------------------
Welcome to class on: Wed Jan 14 17:00:35 CST 2015
I'm Instructor Name Here, your instructor
-------------------------------------------------

Other Useful Apps

When training, we use lots of other apps. Here are some of our favorites:

• Caffeine
• Mouseposé
• ScreenFlow for recording screen casts
• Skitch classic for Mac OSX (hard DMG to find nowadays)
• Quickres
• Switch ResX
• Shush
• AirSketch
• A Web Whiteboard
• Duet Display
• Slate (looks like it stopped getting commits in 2013, but I still use it
• Divvy
• Better Snap Tool

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/github/training-utils/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request