Learning git
By Daniel Miessler on February 25th, 2008: Tagged as Programming
So I’m trying to learn git to allow for easy editing of my site using Textmate, and to just learn git because it’s an intriguing tool in general.
Anyway, I have my main web directory in a repository, and I’m able to clone that down to my workstation using the git:// protocol. I’m also able to open the resulting directory in Textmate, but after that things git a bit fuzzy.
First, I’m not seeing a strong tie between Textmate and git. Using subversion svn was automatically aware if I modified a file using Textmate. But using git I have to save my changes for them to affect git.
I’m also not able to push back to the server yet using Textmate. I got it to “work” using the command line, but I didn’t see the change propagate to the server side.
Anyone have this working correctly? I just want to be able to edit my site on my local box and then upload it to the server when I want to publish.:
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git has a dumb name. subversion has a cool name. Use subversion. Chuck Norris does.
:-)
Comment by ncloud — 2/25/2008 @ 3:24 pm
Stick with it. Git is a newer tool so people might not have much working with it, but it is a far superior tool then SVN.
Comment by Ken — 2/25/2008 @ 5:10 pm
the biggest advantage I see to using git is that I can do local version control. This is a big deal for me if I’m away from my central repository for any length of time on a trip. I’ve pretty much switched to using git on all of my own projects.
Comment by Jason Ormes — 2/27/2008 @ 3:44 pm