On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:40 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
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> I'll get you started though, for personal use, on local computer,
> using command-line.  Assume you have a directory or folder for a
> personal project:

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James, that was a great little summary.  One slight difference I would
mention is that git clone is probably more often used when
collaborating.  For example, many of my projects are on gitorious.  You
can git clone my repository and have my complete project including all
the history.

In a more open repo, you could make changes and push your changes to the
repo.  In the case of gitorious, you can request a push and I would need
to approve it before it got committed to the gitorious repository.

> Then you start learning branching.

And I use branching a lot even when not collaborating.  If I take off in
some risky direction, I will often branch and do the crazy stuff in the
branch.  Then if I like it, I can merge it back into master.  If not, I
can just abandon the branch and the good stuff is still in master.

One of the main differences between git and its predecessors is that
branches are a lot more "lightweight".  They are not only simpler, but a
lot faster.

But that is more advanced stuff.  Mostly you need
  git init
  git status
  git add
  git commit
  git log

And the default git gui works quite well for all of these.

OK, instead of even more rambling, I'm going to make multiple posts.


--McD


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