Re: [oll-user] Git for dummies

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

Joshua Nichols <jos...@gm...> schrieb:
>>
>> md, I believe, is markdown - a simpler version of HTML MarkUp
>(geddit?).
>
>
>Indeed, I am using "StackEdit" which is a dummy text editor for
>MarkDown.
>It's useful, and it allows to send off to GitHub.
>
>I'm looking at all of this, and I feel overwhelmed too; I am just
>taking it
>one bite at a time.
>
>IC,
>
>Josh
>
>
>On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Phil Holmes <ma...@ph...>
>wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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?).
>>
>> --
>> Phil Holmes
>>
>>
>>
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You can also edit markdown files through the github web interface. This offers you a nice preview function.

But you have to take into account that you make a commit on the server - and this may impact your work locally if you are on the same branch. (Although versioning actually _is_ there obe able to handle exactly this kind of situation).
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Urs Liska
openlilylib.org