This tutorial will address the source code management (SCM) tool named Git. By following these steps you should learn about the basic usage of Git, which is required for the whole practical course. Furthermore, Git is a great SCM tool, and it's good to know how to use it. During this tutorial, we will follow Alan Turing's thoughts towards developing the Turing Machine.

 More in-depth documentation can be found on the official home page, which mentions books, videos, and links to other tutorials and references.

Repositories and Commits

1. Read the Git for Computer Scientists introduction (skip this if you are already familiar with Git). 
2. For Linux, Git is available in its own package. Windows users can install msysGit. For MacOS, Git is available as part of Xcode; if you cannot install that, use Git for OSX.

3. Create a local repository for the "Turing Project":

   $ mkdir turing
   $ cd turing
   $ git init
   Initialized empty Git repository in ~/turing/.git/

4. Add some content: copy notes.txt to your turing directory.

   $ git add notes.txt
   $ git commit -m "wrote some first notes"
   [master (root-commit) 2e73b34] wrote some first notes
    1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    create mode 100644 notes.txt