On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 04:16:02PM -0400, Kevin wrote:
On 2015-03-06 08:39, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
Links: ------ [1] https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt [2] https://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt [3] http://0xfe.blogspot.ca/2010/04/improved-git-enabled-shell-prompt.html [4] https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 [5] http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
I was forced to start using git as some of the open source projects I work on switched to using it for maintaining their public code repositories. Git is different enough from the other VCS' I have used that it drove me batty at first. With git I often wound up with my checked out code "not on a branch". I've lost code changes I was working on while using git. That never happened while using any of the RCS/CVS/SVN tools. Eventually I started to get a bit of a handle on git and created my own cheat sheet for it.
And at the same time a lot of people won't contribute to projects because dealing with RCS(ok no one uses that)/CVS/SVN is way too painful. then there is bazaar, which really would be better named bizaar, as far as the UI is concerned. git is different, but it's different in a good way. Now I must admit I have no idea how one can end up not on a branch. I have never managed that as far as I recall. Actually maybe doing a checkout of a specific commit number will do that, but I only ever do that when trying to investigate when something changed, certainly never while writing code.
I have made it available via the wiki on my website. The URL is http://www.ve3syb.ca/wiki/doku.php/docs:git_survivors_guide
-- Len Sorensen