Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

[Urs L. <ul...@op...>]

David Webber <da...@mu...> schrieb:
>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/
>
>
>
>
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Just a quick comment (I'm only on my mobile today):

Github for Windows hides the "mental model" in a way that I find quite suspicious.

And you're right, getting the mental model of how this all works is crucial.
But as mysterious as it looks, it isn't that hard, at least for everything we need now.
-- 
Urs Liska
openlilylib.org