To feel comfortable with Git, make this book your bible: http://progit.org/book/ <http://progit.org/book/>Chapter 2 starts getting you used to your everyday workings, and particularly explains the cool "staging" concept (I wanna commit just a bit, then another bit...) which is one of the things that makes Git shine, apart from the fact that it is distributed. Check out the beautiful "file status lifecycle" diagram at: http://progit.org/book/ch2-2.html <http://progit.org/book/ch2-2.html>Read (and re-read, I often forget a whole bunch of stuff and conveniences) and you will start feeling comfy with Git in no time. Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar http://drupal.org/project/pft On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM, davi "presto" vidal <presto.dk@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com> wrote:
Using a CLI on Windoze is a pain - and, yes, there are a few of us misguided folks who use Windows.
Nancy
I'm on Windows, too. TortoiseGit works nicely so far, but of course, you need to understand git basics/workflows first. Also had troubles understanding it at the beginning.
As an alternative to TortoiseGit you might try SmartGit [1], but needless to say it's a huge difference if you're used to working from within Windows Explorer.
sun
I'm also on Windows and I've used TortoiseGit, SmartGit and "vanilla" Git. Both Tortoise and SmartGit are _great_ tools and do the work _very_ well. But I must agree with everyone that already told you that you _need_ to know the basics in order to use those correctly.
That being said, if I had to choose between Tortoise and SmartGit *today*, I would kept with SmartGit, since the last time I tested Tortoise (Jan 2010) it wasn't working very well. But I'm giving it a new try and it seems to be working fine so far.
davi
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