Part 1: Installing VMware and CentOS
Part 2: Expanding CentOS's Minimal Install
Part 3: Installing Python 3.6
This is Part 4: Linking PyCharm to Github via SSH
Part 5: Running through Git-It again, this time with PyCharm
In this post I'm going to configure PyCharm to use GitHub for version control (then I'm going to get it working with SSH). This will let me accomplish two things:
- It will let me work more easily from multiple machines on the same code.
- It will make it easier for me to review or assist with other projects that are on my radar, because those are also in GitHub.
What is GitHub?
First, GitHub is not git.
git is a version control tool written by Linus Torvalds, the guy responsible for Linux. Think of it as a series of snapshots of your code - so you can say 'oops, I really screwed this up, I want to go back to what I had 36 hours ago.'GitHub is an online, web-based version control repository (with some other cool features, too). Imagine taking all of those incremental snapshots (with
git) and saving them to DropBox or Google Drive. GitHub accomplishes this, but because it is specifically designed around this sort of purpose, it does it really, really well. This provides a few benefits:- It allows multiple people to work on the same project without the need for a common physical network. I can concurrently collaborate on code with colleagues in Kansas, Colorado, Kenya and Kuala Lumpur.
- It allows work to continue on the same code, from multiple machines - I can make a lot of progress on my system at home, but if I have an idea while I'm at work, I can make a change without waiting to get back to my home system.
