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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 1 = Learning About git =
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 3 [[Free Online Pro Git book>>http://progit.org/book/]]
4 [[Git User Manual>>http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html]]
5 [[Git Reference>>http://gitref.org/index.html]]
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 7 = Install Git =
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 9 [[OS X dmg Installer>>http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/]]
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 11 = Git Goodies =
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 13 == GitX git GUI ==
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David Avendasora 77.1 15 GitX is an awesome FREE history viewer made for OS X. It is a better way to visualize your branch and commit history of your git repository. However, power users (aka "cool kids") will probably only use it for history viewing while they continue to use the terminal command line for checkouts, branching, staging, rebasing and committing.
16 [[GitX Home Page>>http://gitx.frim.nl/]]
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 18 == Open in GitX ==
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Kieran Kelleher 66.1 20 [[Open In GitX Finder Droplet>>http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/wiki/OpenInGitX]]
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 22 == Git Tower ==
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 24 For those of you who just get panic attacks at the thought of using the Terminal, there is a commercial app for that:
25 [[Git Tower>>http://www.git-tower.com/]]
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 27 = Using git locally on a Subversion Working Copy =
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 29 OK, so you are addicted to git, and now you have to work on a team project that is hosted in a remote subversion repository ... and it is making you depressed :-(. Well, you can use manage your local svn working copy using git and be happy again!
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 31 Don't use the git-svn tool, just use the [[git+svn protocol>>http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/derickbailey/archive/2010/02/03/branch-per-feature-how-i-manage-subversion-with-git-branches.aspx]] instead.
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 33 = I want to learn git before I switch from Subversion =
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 35 (This kind of repeats some of the previous section, but that's on porpose so we can condition you brain to start using git right now ;-) )
36 Even while you are working with svn repositories, you can start taking learning and advantage of git right now by making your local svn working copy an actual local git repository. The idea is to use the appropriate ignore feature of each SCM system to ignore the hidden files of the other system. The concept is described here:
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 38 [[git+svn Working Protocol>>http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/derickbailey/archive/2010/02/03/branch-per-feature-how-i-manage-subversion-with-git-branches.aspx]]
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 40 When you first learn about git and you google "git svn" you will learn about a command line tool git-svn which works directly with remote svn repos, however my advice is don't use git-svn. Use the approach outlined in above blog post instead.
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Kieran Kelleher 107.1 42 Once you start using git, it becomes addictive ....... you can never go back ...... really, it's that good ...... and it is not hard.
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Kieran Kelleher 111.1 44 For Eclipse setup when using git locally on svn working copies, just check out the entire svn branch on the command line, then LINK (import no copy) the projects you want in your workspace using the Subclipse import tool, and just do your git operations (status, staging, commit, diff, branching, checkouts, rebase and merge using the terminal). git on the terminal is efficient... honest.