Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
On 2/19/09 9:53 AM, "Jonathan Kulp" <jonlancek...@gmail.com> wrote:
This sounds really useful. I'd like to try to get comfortable with git
on a project of my own, something that doesn't have an online repo. How
do I create a local git version of a directory on my machine? I tried
creating a new directory to house the new git repo and then doing
git-clone ~/Documents/DirectoryName/
You don't have a git repository of your stuff, so you can't clone the
repository.
The way I do it is to change to ~/Documents/DirectoryName/ and type
git init
which will create an empty repository in the current directory. Then you
add your files to the repository by typing
git add *
which adds all the files to the staging area, followed by
git commit
which commits them to the repository. And now you're off and running!
Good luck,
Carl
Thanks Carl & Maximilian for this help. I've got it going now. At the
moment I don't see all the advantages of it for this project but I'm
getting used to the git commands and conventions at least. It's a big
lilypond-book project so it has tons of extra files that get created
when I compile and I'm not sure if I want git tracking all those or not.
It seems unnecessary to track anything but the source code files.
After I compile, though, and then do "git status" I get an enormous
number of untracked files created since the last commit. I just go
through and add the ones I want tracked, commit them and I'm done I
guess. Thanks for the help with git. I appreciate it and I'm guessing
this thread will be helpful for other noobs in the future. :)
Jon
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