http://jasonrowe.com enjoying the web Sun, 13 May 2012 14:05:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://jasonrowe.com/2009/05/16/trying-out-git-source-control-for-windows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trying-out-git-source-control-for-windows http://jasonrowe.com/2009/05/16/trying-out-git-source-control-for-windows/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 03:14:54 +0000 Jason http://rowejason.com/?p=382 Continue reading →]]> msysgit project and ran the executable.  After it installed I was relieved to see it comes with a GUI application, I was feeling lazy. There is also a version of TortoiseGit which looks similar to TortoiseSVN. Before finding out how to start the GUI I browsed over this  cheat sheet and this one. I fumbled around because folders with spaces need to be escaped. For example, to change directory in the git console app use “cd Program\ files”. Then I started checking out the GUI using this walk through. Once I got to the section on branching I really started to like Git. Things are just blazing fast and I don’t have duplicate copies of files all over my drive. I then tried out GitHub. I built a quick project and submitted using the online instructions. It’s pretty amazing how fast you can push things over the network.  I never want to use a different source control again. Linus has some cool comments about git if you want to learn more from the creator. My most used commands: get init git add . add all files under the current directory to the project git commit … [-m ] commit , , etc…, optionally using commit message , otherwise opening your editor to let you type a commit message git commit -a commit all files changed since your last commit git revert reverse commit specified by and commit the result. This does *not* do the same thing as similarly named commands in other VCS’s such as “svn revert” or “bzr revert”, see below git checkout re-checkout , overwriting any local changes git checkout . re-checkout all files, overwriting any local changes. This is most similar to “svn revert” if you’re used to Subversion commands]]> http://jasonrowe.com/2009/05/16/trying-out-git-source-control-for-windows/feed/ 0