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

• First time setup for application

$ 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