On Git and GitHub (was Re: [openspacecode] Re: Ongoing Project(s)?)

[Nissan Dookeran]

Hi everyone,
This is my first post as well.

I recently looked at GitHub for a pet project I was working on, and
using the site alone I was able to get up and running (in Windows)
with source control quite painlessly.
The caveat is that I do have familiarity with Linux and
Subversion/TortoiseSVN for Windows, so your level of painlessness may
vary.

The guides are very good though as a starter.
http://github.com/guides/home

I also watched Linus Torvalds talk on Git he gave at Google where he
discussed the principles behind its creation and how best to use it
before I decided that it was a distributed version control system I
wanted for my project and not a classic Subversion/CVS/TFS type
version control system. It's on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 and I highly recommend it
to anyone interested in Git

Hope that helps with the previous discussion thread.
-Nissan


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Aleksander Sumowski
<aleksande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like we have need of a session on Git ;-)
>> My concern with Git is that it doesn't (or didn't, last time I checked)
>> have a Windows client, although I think that I heard a rumour that the
>> Tortoise folk were working on one.
>
> Hi :)
>
> There is a native version of Git on Windows:
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
>
> Aleksander
>
> P.S. This is my first post on the group, so hello everyone :)
>
>
> >
>



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[petemounce]

There's also TortoiseGit - http://repo.or.cz/w/TortoiseGit.git and
mirrored to http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ . It works fine,
but I started using the CLI regardless, since I'm doing some remote/
headless stuff at present.

On Apr 9, 9:13 am, Nissan Dookeran <nissan.dooke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> This is my first post as well.
>
> I recently looked at GitHub for a pet project I was working on, and
> using the site alone I was able to get up and running (in Windows)
> with source control quite painlessly.
> The caveat is that I do have familiarity with Linux and
> Subversion/TortoiseSVN for Windows, so your level of painlessness may
> vary.
>

> The guides are very good though as a starter.http://github.com/guides/home

>
> I also watched Linus Torvalds talk on Git he gave at Google where he
> discussed the principles behind its creation and how best to use it
> before I decided that it was a distributed version control system I
> wanted for my project and not a classic Subversion/CVS/TFS type

> version control system. It's on YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8and I highly recommend it

> to anyone interested in Git
>
> Hope that helps with the previous discussion thread.
> -Nissan
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Aleksander Sumowski
>
>
>
> <aleksander.sumow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Sounds like we have need of a session on Git ;-)
> >> My concern with Git is that it doesn't (or didn't, last time I checked)
> >> have a Windows client, although I think that I heard a rumour that the
> >> Tortoise folk were working on one.
>
> > Hi :)
>
> > There is a native version of Git on Windows:
> >http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
>
> > Aleksander
>
> > P.S. This is my first post on the group, so hello everyone :)
>
> --

> Nissan Dookeranhttp://redditech.blogspot.comhttp://redditech.wordpress.com

[Alan Dean]

Sounds like engaging in the project will be a way for folk to learn about Git as well :-)

Do we have a volunteer to lead the project, configure GitHub, orchestrate the problem domain, etc?

Regards,
Alan Dean

[Nissan Dookeran]

I'm still an amateur with Git, since all I did really was watch the
YouTube video Linus gave on Git and then follow the advice on GitHub
guides to get my PC that has Windows up and running with a GitHub
project.
I havent really deep dived into fully developing a real project with
Git, but I'd really like the chance to.

I'd like to help where I can, what would leading the project involve?

-Nissan

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http://redditech.blogspot.com

[petemounce]

I've got a small (really small!) amount of experience with git/
github. I've successfully used it with my rake-dotnet library, but
not much else; not, for example, working on something with more people
than just myself.

Perhaps it would be a good preparation to stick the skeleton of
whatever the ongoing project is going to be into a new repository, and
have the lead that you pick work on this for a little to get some
progress happening with it, so it's not a blank slate for the next
OSC?

I would volunteer, except I'll be right in the throes of starting my
new job shortly, so don't anticipate having any time available.

Regards
Pete

On Apr 9, 3:28 pm, Alan Dean <alan.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like engaging in the project will be a way for folk to learn about
> Git as well :-)
> Do we have a volunteer to lead the project, configure GitHub, orchestrate
> the problem domain, etc?
>
> Regards,
> Alan Dean
>

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM, petemounce <peter.mou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There's also TortoiseGit -http://repo.or.cz/w/TortoiseGit.gitand

> > mirrored tohttp://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/.  It works fine,

[petemounce]

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html may be
helpful, too.

> > >www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8andIhighly recommend it