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

[Jochen Rau]

Hi,

thank you Karsten for the links. I like this one:

http://git-scm.com/course/svn.html

Jochen



Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> 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

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