Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

[Phil H. <ma...@ph...>]

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From: "David Webber" <da...@mu...>
To: <ope...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:41 PM
Subject: [oll-user] Git for dummies


>I am coming to GIT with zero background knowledge, and am absolutely 
>*totally* confused.
>
> I have installed GIT and GIT for windows (I’m running Windows 8), and can 
> log on with my user name and password.   I pressed a ‘Fork’ button in the 
> browser page, and the number next to it responded by changing from 7 to 8.
>
> But I don’t know what this actually did, and I haven’t a clue what to do 
> next.   I have a PDF file to upload, or ‘commit’ or whatever, but how do I 
> do it?  I have to ‘clone’ a ‘repository’ but I have only the faintest idea 
> of what a ‘repository’ is or what a ‘clone’ is (except possibly that the 
> clone is possibly expected to be on my computer, and the repository is up 
> in the cloud somewhere).
>
> I started wading through the introduction to GIT but after several 
> generally unhelpful pages of how it differs from other programs I’d never 
> heard of, my eyes started to glaze over.   I have now spent almost as long 
> on this as I spent encoding challenge 1.
>
> Help!  Anyone?
>


I'm assuming you have a github account?  When you "fork"ed the engraving 
challenge, it would have copied the files from that page (repository == 
repo) to your account, so you should now have a copy in your account.

When you installed git for Windows, it should have given you a new git 
program in your programs.  I'm Vista, so can't say exactly how this 
manifests in Win 8, but in Vista I have a Program folder called Git, and 
programs called git bash and git gui.  Do you have something similar?

If so, we can proceed from there.

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Phil Holmes