git-exercises

This repository contains the source code of the git-exercises platform for practising git.

Overview

This project consists of two docker images: mysql and an apache server.

Setup

Windows 10:

Docker desktop community 2.3.0.3
    - docker-compose version 1.25.5, build 8a1c60f6
    - Docker version 19.03.8, build afacb8b
MySQL Workbench 8.0

Ubuntu 18.04.5:

docker-compose version 1.17.1, build unknown
Docker version 19.03.6, build 369ce74a3c
mysql-client-core-5.7

Configuration

The only file you need to update is docker/.env

How to build

In directory /docker run

docker-compose build

Make sure the default branch of your repo is verifications

How to run

In directory /docker run

docker-compose run

Database schema initialization

First time you need to run backend/schema/gitexercises.sql

To execute these instructions do

# login to mysql running in docker container
mysql -h localhost -P 3306 --protocol=tcp -u root 
# in mysql shell 
CREATE DATABASE <DB_NAME as defined in docker/.env>;
USE <DB_NAME as defined in docker/.env>;
# run the sql file
source 'backend/schema/gitexercises.sql'

Start exercising

Assuming you run on localhost, this is how you start with exercise 1

git clone http://localhost/git/exercises.git git-exercises
cd git-exercises
./configure.sh
git start

Adding new exercises

See CONTRIBUTING.md