Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

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

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From: "David Webber" <da...@mu...>
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Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies


> 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.)

With your permission, I'll focus on this, since I'm not familiar with the 
Gui.  FWIW I regard myself as a Windows power user, but since getting 
involved in LilyPond I've had to adopt some Linux, to the point now where I 
sometimes type 'ls' into a Windows command prompt, where I should use 'dir'.

Anyway, conceptually git provides a distributed repository of files.  The 
original was on Urs's account, and you copied this (fork) to your github 
account.  You can now pull this down to your local machine, mess with the 
files and git will track this.  You can then make these changes a part of 
the repo (commit) and get them back up to the repository on github (push). 
There's loads of other commands, most of which I don't know, but the few I 
do know should get you started.

You need to start by creating the repository locally.  Open the bash prompt 
and navigate to, or create, the directory where you want your local 
repository to reside.  Then clone the repo from remote.  I would do this 
with:

git clone https://github.com/PhilHolmes/engraving-challenges

You need to use your own username in the URL.

You should see some stuff happening and you should get a copy of the files 
from the remote repo on your hard disk.  Lunch beckons: let me know when 
you've done that.

[snip]

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Phil Holmes