To feel comfortable with Git, make this book your bible:

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

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
>
> [1] http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit
>
>

   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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davi