Comments on: Getting Started with Git and GitHub on Windows

By: ignaci

ignaci — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:56:20 +0000

It’s a good guide for Windows folks willing to try some distributed dev.
Check this one too: http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/03/distributed-development-for-windows.html, there’s more to distributed version control than Git and Mercurial out there.

By: Kyle Cordes

Kyle Cordes — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:01:44 +0000

The above comment reminded me to mention this Git introduction:

http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html

By: PalaDolphin

PalaDolphin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:13:58 +0000

In reading your instructions for Git, you lost me at “Getting Started Locally”.

After the ‘git config’ commands, you have this “Git speak” that you don’t explain:

‘Copy the “Clone URL” from a github project page.’
{I see no “Clone” anywhere on their page.}

(….)

By: Ashwin Nanjappa

Ashwin Nanjappa — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:14:45 +0000

Windows users who are part of a domain, might have to check their HOMESHARE directory for the generated .ssh directory. This environment variable does not appear in the System Properties dialog. To see or navigate to this directory, enter the path %HOMESHARE% into Windows Explorer.

By: Kyle Cordes

Kyle Cordes — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:41:16 +0000

Ceyhun – thanks for the tip. I have ample screenshot technology in hand, including Alt-printscreen, manual trimming, various screengrab tools, etc.

By: P

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:12:38 +0000

Kyle, for future reference, any time you want a clean screenshot of the active window, press alt+prtsc. It’ll save you from having to do time consuming cropping.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:28:21 +0000

If you get the error:
error could not lock config file .git config: no such file or directory
then you should check if you used the two dashes “–” or if you have one dash only “-”.

I ran into this error, but the blog was not very clear about this thing. Furthermore, great info… thanks.

By: Conor Rafferty

Conor Rafferty — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:00:45 +0000

By the way Kyle, thanks for the awesome intro to Git, you sure helped reassure me that windows support existed and your testimony encouraged me that it could work for us too!

cheers,
Conor

By: Conor Rafferty

Conor Rafferty — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:52:24 +0000

Here is a little exercise / tutorial / warm-up for someone starting out with Git. If you’re anyting like me you may find the tutorials etc. on git.or.cz a bit daunting. I recommend you try this after reading the user manual but before tearing your hair out trying to follow all the examples in the user manual. After you’ve followed this simple workflow, then go back to the more advanced stuff in the tutorials and user manuals (like cloning repositories and creating and merging branches).

I created this exercise to try and model our workflow and what we wanted to use git for = tracking a project with multiple files where the filebase might change frequently from one version to the next. (For more on my first engagement with Git, see previous blog entry!)

http://siliconmouth.wordpress.com/category/nerdy/

look for December 27, 2008 or “git warmup”

By: mikkel madsen

mikkel madsen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:47:27 +0000

Is there a way to make git remember my password when i push
im using windows vista cmd.exe

By: Richard Muller

Richard Muller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:14:52 +0000

I downloaded and installed the Git stuff, but one problem for me is getting back in *nix kind of stuff. I wonder if merely setting RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘x.x.x’ at the beginning of config.rb will allow me to test my Rails about against version x.x.x? Do you see any problem with that approach?

By: Richard Muller

Richard Muller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:16:33 +0000

Thanks for such a great write-up. It was a pleasure to follow it.

By: Charlie Park

Charlie Park — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:13:30 +0000

Where you have “git config –global user.email Your.Email@domain.com“, that en-dash should be two dashes: “–global”

I’m not sure if the blog will turn those two dashes into a single longer dash, but I thought I’d add that in here.

Thanks for the tutorial.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:18:52 +0000

FYI: when I ran it, the lines to set my global name and email needed two dashes in front of the word ‘global’ – not just one as seems to be shown here.

In any case, thanks for this helper starter page.

By: Kyle Cordes

Kyle Cordes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:02:37 +0000

> remember the password?

I haven’t set this up myself using the SSH in msys, but it is almost certainly there. I have set it up with PuTTY, where it works well.