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By the end of week 1, you’ll be up and running on Git for your hardware designs!

By the end of week 2, your team will be up and running to conduct design reviews.

And by the end of the month, you’ll be adding functionality, plugging in your existing toolset, and even automating administrative tasks that take away from your time spinning boards.

“How long is it going to take to learn Git? Will I have to completely change my hardware development process?”


This guide answers those questions in this step-by-step, checklist-based reference material for Hardware Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and PCB Designers. This guide is for engineers looking to modernize the way they design electronics, but are uncertain about the approaches to take and time commitment.

In this actionable, checklist-based reference guide, you’ll learn:

Git in 30 days in a tablet

Week 1


– How to introduce the benefits of Git to your fellow engineers
– Conducting design reviews and providing feedback
– Traceability & compliance through Git revision control and library management
– Managing complex projects in the hardware design process
– NPI process
– Selecting the initial design project to evaluate using Git
– Identifying migration team and stakeholders
– Mapping current engineering process
– Selecting Git Client (Github Desktop, Sourcetree, Git Bash CLI)
– Setting up role-based permissions
– Creating your first project (Git repository, Git branches, Git pushing, and Git pulling)

Week 2

– Hardware team onboarding best practices- Create pre-onboarding homework and instructions/videos
– Conducting 1-hour team training
– Creating DR/PR, and Issue templates
– Team communication setup
– External Git integrations setup
– Onboarding designs from all ECAD tools and formats
– Creating a checklist of additional files to keep in the repo

Week 3

– Creating backup plans
– Selecting migration candidates
– Involving all stakeholders (i.e. CMs, Firmware, Software teams)
– Evaluating tradeoffs between manual, ad-hoc, and automated migration
– Migrating the remainder of the projects to repositories
– Validating the migration method twice

Week 4

– Advanced features and use cases
– Automation & continuous integration
– HW DevOps best practices review
– Actions/automations best practices
– Creating a roadmap, prioritization, and setting up regular product meetings
– DFM Hazard review

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