smoother.
1) Pay attention to Chad's advice to set autocrlf=false. There is a
lot of confusing information on the "git for windows" tutorials that
are out there, and many suggest you enable autocrlf. What I've come to
understand is that really only applies if you are committing to a
linux based project (like, say, the linux kernel). If you are working
mostly on Windows-based projects, you dont want git's "help" in
"fixing" your files. Setting autocrlf=false tells git "leave my files
alone, I like the line endings exactly how they are".
2) Always work in a branch locally. After you clone the repo and
before you start making any changes, create a branch. Once you are
happy with your changes, merge your branch back into master, and then
push master to your remote repo.
This gives you at least 2 benefits that I've found useful:
- if you want to throw away your changes, just switch back to master
and delete that branch. I know there is a way to do it, but I've had
so much trouble trying to tell git to throw away my recent changes.
Just blowing away the branch is easy and works.
- if you want to work on a different task that is a tangent from your
original task, just switch back to master and create a new branch. It
wont have any of your in-progress changes from the first branch. This
allows you to commit the work from the 2nd task before finishing the
1st task.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Chad Myers <chad.my
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SETTING UP YOUR PRIVATE FORK (ONE TIME ONLY)
> Description: In git, you don't work off the main repo. You fork it into your
> own repo, work there, and then send "pull requests" to the main. One of the
> main committers/maintainers will then review your request and "pull" it into
> the mainline repo.
> 1.) First, create a Github account (
www.github.com) if you don't have one
> already.
> 2.) Fork the FubuMVC repository via your web browser from here:
>
http://github.com/DarthFubuMVC/fubumvc > NOTE the "Private" git address for this repo. It should be something like:
> g
...@github.com:chadmyers/fubumvc.git
> SETTING UP YOUR LOCAL DEV ENVIRONMENT (ONE TIME ONLY)
> Description: Get git up and running locally so you can pull down the source
> and contribute to your own repo.
> 1.) First, get Cygwin + Git (or you can use msysGit, but I did the Cygwin
> one and it works):
> http://airto.hosted.ats.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_and_Using_...
> 2.) Open a cmd.exe and type "git". It should say something other than "git
> is not recognized blah blah blah".
> 3.) Set git with some global defaults:
> From a command-line, type:
> git config --global user.name "Your Name"
> git config --global user.email "Your Email {preferably the same one you used
> to set up your github account}"
> git config --global core.autocrlf false
> 4.) Create your public/private keypair and associate it with your github
> account (Git uses keys for authentication)
> http://help.github.com/msysgit-key-setup/
> That link/guid is for msysgit, but the process is the same with Cygwin+Git.
> GETTING YOUR REPO (ONE TIME ONLY)
> Description: This will pull down the code from Github locally so you can
> work with it and start the normal everyday Git workflow
> 1.) Open a command-line and CD to your code folder (where you keep all your
> other projects)
> 2.) Remember your private git address for your repo/fork? You'll need that
> now.
> 3.) Type: git clone YourPrivateGitAddress
> It should now start pulling down your repo. It was most likely named
> 'fubumvc', so it'll create a 'fubumvc' folder under your code folder.
> 4.) CD to the fubumvc folder. Do a 'dir' and you should see things like
> "src" dir and "Rakefile".
> 5.) Type "rake" and it should build and run all the tests. If Rake doesn't
> work, then you don't have Ruby set up properly. That's OK, just open
> Explorer, go to the fubumvc folder, then to the "src" folder, then open the
> FubuMVC.sln file and try to build it in Visual Studio.
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