Notes about Git

Manuals

• Crash Course: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
• User Manual for Git: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

• Branches
  • in my own words: working with branches is central to git; some people make a branch for each feature they are working on; I think each developer should have his own branch (or even several if working on different OS or machines), and merge to master as often as possible; you can have local and remote branches; it would make sense to create a local branch, and then push it to the server creating a remote branch.
  • http://sites.google.com/a/insoshi.com/insoshi-guides/Git-Guides/working-on-a-local-development-branch
  • http://sites.google.com/a/insoshi.com/insoshi-guides/Git-Guides/pushing-up-your-changes
  • http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/12/18/agile-git-and-the-story-branch-pattern
  • http://sites.google.com/a/insoshi.com/insoshi-guides/Git-Guides/merge-vs-rebase

# first make sure we are on the main branch
git checkout master
# create a local branch that is called mynewbranch
git branch mynewbranch
# switch to that branch
git checkout mynewbranch
# create the branch also on the remote repository
git push ssh://..../openpetraorg/openpetraorg/ mynewbranch:refs/heads/mynewbranch
# change config so that future git push will go into correct remote branch
git config branch.mynewbranch.remote ssh://..../openpetraorg/openpetraorg
git config branch.mynewbranch.merge refs/heads/mynewbranch
# push changes in local branch to remote branch
git push

# make your changes in the branch, commit to branch
git commit -a
# push branch to remote branch
git push
# switch to master
git checkout master
# merge from branch
git merge mynewbranch
# push to master
git push
# switch to branch again
git checkout mynewbranch

• line feed issues:
  • see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/861995/is-it-possible-for-git-merge-to-ignore-line-ending-differences
  • see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011985/line-endings-messed-up-in-git-how-to-track-changes-from-another-branch-after-a
  • http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion suggests that on Windows in the config file in .git, you should set "core.autocrlf = true so that text files are automatically checked out with CRLF and checked in as LF".
  • see also discussion at http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=21

TortoiseGit

• http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

This works fine on Windows, although it is still work in progress...

It requires "Git on Windows" http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/; be careful: use the official git installer from that site, eg. Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608.exe, not the fullinstaller or other packages.

Git Bash

• You need to add each changed file before you commit. Otherwise that file will not be part of the next commit.
• If you added too many files by accident, and you want to lose them completely: (use this carefully with -f) git rm . -r
  • even better: to unstage: git reset HEAD <file>...
• undo all local changes: git checkout -f
• to revert a single file: use git checkout filename (see http://norbauer.com/notebooks/code/notes/git-revert-reset-a-single-file)
• to ignore eg. *.bak files, create a file .gitignore and add the files; eg see OpenPetra/csharp/.gitignore