I use git (and Github Enterprise) in my day to day work. I can help out. Another good (free (as in beer)) client is SourceTree https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are some resources GitHub recommends for learning git: > > https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for- > learning-git-and-github/ > > When MacPorts moves to GitHub, committers will need to stop using their > existing Subversion working copies and get a fresh copy of the code from > GitHub. There will be separate repositories for base, ports, the web site, > and so forth. > > If you are a committer or would like to contribute to MacPorts in the > future, and you don't already have a GitHub account, you should create one > now. If you are a committer, you should add your @macports.org email > address > to your GitHub account now, so that any past commits you made in Subversion > are properly associated with your GitHub account. > > Some of our developers are not very, or not at all, familiar with how to > use > git, and I include myself in that list. It would be great if we could > prepare a wiki page that helps Subversion users learn to use git, perhaps > with examples such as "In Subversion, to update your working copy with the > latest code, you run 'svn update', while with git, you update your clone > using 'git pull'". We may also need some task-related examples, such as how > to create a new port; how to update an existing port; how to install an > updated version of a port that was submitted as a pull request; how to fix > a > pull request that isn't quite correct. We may also need some explanations > of > git terminology, such as "master", "origin", "rebase", "fast-forward", etc. > Let's use this wiki page to collect this information: > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit > > If you aren't familiar with git, please ask specific questions about tasks > that you don't know how to do in git. If you are familiar with git, please > help answer these questions. > > GitHub offers a nice Mac app that makes it easy to do basic tasks like > committing updates without having to know how to use git on the command > line. > > GitHub also offers a Subversion compatibility feature. If you don't know > git > and don't want to learn right now, you can continue to use the Subversion > client as before, you'll just have to "svn checkout" a new working copy > from > the GitHub repository URL. You can use that working copy with your normal > Subversion client and it should behave as a normal Subversion repository. > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev >
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