Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

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

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From: "David Webber" <da...@mu...>
To: "oll-user" <ope...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies


> From: Phil Holmes
>
>>> OK thanks.   Done all that!  Can you see a pdf and a png file from me?
>
>> Yep.  Welcome to git.
>
> I'm now babbling incoherently wondering where I am.    How did you see 
> them?

I went to _your_ repository: 
https://github.com/MozartSoftware/engraving-challenges

At present, you can only update your own repositiry, since you don't have 
permission to mess with Urs's original.  I think he may be able to grab 
stuff from you and upload it to his repo, but I'll leave that to him.

> There's something which says branch:master, but if I change it to another
> 'branch'  I see the same thing.

A quick divert into branches.  These are effectively parallel development 
streams (which can also be merged if required).  So if you were working on 2 
versions of a piece of music (I dunno, baroque and modern styles or 
something) you could create a branch for each and swap between them, without 
either impinging on the other.  If you look at the lilypond git interface 
you'll see _lots_ of branches - this is to allow us to work on separate 
aspects/timelines of the system without bothering the others.  Broadly, you 
can get away without doing much about branches at this time.

> PS
> [In a spectacular leap of the imagination I have just realised that .md
> files are probably ascii text, so I'm going to try to modify the one in
> Mozart.]

md, I believe, is markdown - a simpler version of HTML MarkUp (geddit?).

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Phil Holmes