Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

[David W. <da...@mu...>]

From: Phil Holmes

> I'm assuming you have a github account?

Yes.  With a user name and password.

> 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.<

OK - thanks - I had no idea that's what it did!

>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?

Yes.   I actually installed two things.

A) GitBash:  seems to be a command line program, and the commands are of the 
form, I guess, that others have asked about here.  But without an adequate 
mental model of exactly what the commands are supposed to achieve, or what 
is going where, the syntax just looks like a set of uncertain magic 
incantations.  (I have never used Linux, and command lines just give me 
nostalgia for MS-DOS which I used back in the 1980s.)

B) Git for Windows:  I thought this would bypass the command syntax, but the 
lack of a mental model is confusing me here too.   In addition to GitBash, I 
have two icons on my desktop:

B1.  GitShell (white pussycat silhouette on a black disk).
This opens "Windows Power Shell" which looks like a posh version of GitBash.

B2. GitHub (white pussycat silhouette on a blue disk).

This opens a GUI app.  Down the left it has Local then repositories, then 
GitHub, then my user ID.    Next to the local repositories I have one entry: 
"PhilHolmes/engraving-challenges".  I can only assume that this is there 
because I looked at one of your PDFs?    I can open this and see two 
PDFs -one for each challenge: presumably yours!

There's also a "drag a repository here to add" area.  But where from? And 
what does it add it to?

If I click on my ID under GitHub, the local repository changes to show the 
name of mine!   And there's a 'clone' button next to it.  Do I do that?  If 
so, what next?

Thanks Phil.  If you can sort me out, this might be a life saver!

Dave

David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/