Git

Git

Git is an open-source, distributed version control repository system.

http://git-scm.com/

Installing Git

http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html

Installing Git on Windows

• http://code.google.com/p/msysgit
• https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/InstallMSysGit
• http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list

• Download Installer and run it.
• Choose all default settings (for now).

Repository

Launch Git Gui.

Create New Repository.

Specify path.

Syntaxes

• Cretae an alias for check out.

$ git config --global alias.co checkout

• Set the default editor.

$ git config --global core.editor notepad++.exe

• Initialize git for the first time.

$ cd first_app
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in ../Rails_Projects/first_app/.git/

• Add the ignore list.

$ cd first_app
$ vi .gitignore
$ cat .gitignore
.bundle
db/*.sqlite3*
log/*.log
*.log
/tmp/
doc/
*.swp
*~
.project
.DS_Store

• Add all

$ git add .

• Check status

$ git status

• Commit

$ git commit -m “Initial Commit”