[TYPO3-team-core-v5] Checking out git - the basics

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

To check out if git works on Windows it would be enough to do some 
operations on the command line. So, what operations? Read on.

A very nice, although fast-paced, introduction to git is
  http://gitcasts.com/posts/railsconf-git-talk

This is about git on Windows, from the same guy:
  http://gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows


Now, practical stuff. As long as everything is still in Subversion for 
us, using git's built-in Subversion bridging is cool. Just read this:
  http://www.viget.com/extend/effectively-using-git-with-subversion/

I did that for PHPCR and TYPO3CR last week to be able to branch for some 
experimental stuff I'm doing, and that works beautifully. Creating a 
branch, committing to that branch, switching back to master, changing 
something there, committing that to Subversion (see r of TYPO3CR today).

Most impressive is the speed with which all that happens (aside from the 
svn commit). Looking at the history? Diff? All lighting fast.


Granted for the Mac there is gitx, a nice frontend. But git comes with 
built-in GUI tools as well, git gui and gitk. TextMate has very complete 
git bundle, and there is EGit (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/EclipsePlugin) 
for Eclipse (still rough). And TortoiseGit.


That might be helpful. I hope. :)

Regards,
Karsten