An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows(nathanj.github.com)

28 pointsby zvikaravor 18 Jahren6 comments

nathanj.github.com

http://nathanj.github.com/gitguide/tour.html

This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools.

Although this guide is targeted for use on Windows, the git gui tool works the same on all platforms. Because of this, git users on other platforms may find useful information here as well.

6 comments

inklesspenvor 18 Jahren

This is pretty useful, especially combined with the "Version control for designers" article: http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.html

iofthestormvor 18 Jahren

Nice, I've been pretty interested in git recently but since I use Windows primarily (flame me all you want, but I actually like Windows) it seemed like it wasn't worth the hassle. I will definitely have to try it now. I had thought earlier msys-git was kind of unsupported so my only option was cygwin but I guess that isn't so much of a problem if github seems to be endorsing it.

mojombovor 18 Jahren

We've had a lot of people tell us that they're using Git on Windows with msysgit. It provides everything you need to be productive with Git and the install procedure is pretty slick. There's always room for improvement and a TortoiseGit [1] is in the works too, though still quite alpha.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

gcvvor 18 Jahren

How is performance with msysgit? The Cygwin port leaves a lot to be desired on larger projects.

dzorzvor 18 Jahren

git-svn still doesn't work in msysgit.

iofthestormvor 18 Jahren

Ahh, that's a bit of a problem. That was something I was intending on using. But I'll still check it out and hope for msysgit to improve in the future.