Comments on: To Git or Not to Git

By: Marcos Ricardo

Marcos Ricardo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:19:00 +0000

I can not be considered a git/github “hard user”, but I have been using it for a while on Windows, and no big deal, it works just fine.

I have made a little contribution myself, here:

http://marcricblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/github-primer-real-one.html

But a more advanced public tutorial, on text style or a screencast or whatever, would be nice.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:10:26 +0000

@Charles: Contrary to what the guide say, I’ll disable autocrlf for good. Any moderm text editor can deal with CR/LF without issues (except for NetBeans).

By: Charles Roper

Charles Roper — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:06:17 +0000

Info on how to resolve the crlf issue can be found here:

http://github.com/guides/dealing-with-newlines-in-git

There are a couple of other guides under Git for Windows here:

http://github.com/guides/home

I’ve personally found msysGit to be very reliable. I had several problems with the Cygwin version, mainly relating to ssh keys and the like. I definitely highly recommend sticking with the msys version:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:44 +0000

@dstar:

That’s because msysGit assumed autocrlf should be true on Windows…

That’s a huge mistake, and can be easily corrected.

By: dstar

dstar — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:53:22 +0000

I don’t know that git does work on windows; I know I wouldn’t trust it. I tried it out a couple of weeks ago, and after doing a git clone , git status listed a couple dozen files as having been changed, which obviously wasn’t the case….

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:44:06 +0000

Thank you Hugo for the link!

I haven’t watched it yet, will do later today and update the post with it.

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:43:31 +0000

@Tom: you’re right, I should be working on RubyInstaller

I just approved your comment for gitcasts and Hugo direct link to it. I’m about to update the post with that.

Thank you!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:10:54 +0000

There are some tutorials covering git in github and some other around the web. But I didn’t find a “complete” tutorial that explain everything for a git newbie.

Regarding the screencast, there is one related to windows on gitcasts: http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows

I haven’t seen it, so I can’t say if it’s worth doing a new one.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:36:16 +0000

Luis: Check out http://gitcasts.com/ – It has a screencast about git on windows amongst other things. I haven’t seen it myself but that might be worth linking to.

Note: Apparently my first comment didn’t post; Odd. If another similar post shows up, please delete it.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:31:39 +0000

@Luis: A friend of mine sent this link my way earlier: http://gitcasts.com/

It has a screencast about git on windows; I haven’t watched it myself, but that might be worth checking out and/or linking to.

Besides, you don’t have time for git screencasts, you should be working on 1.9.1.