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| docs:git:git_walkthrough [2012/09/21 23:57] – billh | docs:git:git_walkthrough [2012/10/09 14:30] (current) – billh | ||
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| * git is cool - the complete repository (all history) is stored inside this .git directory | * git is cool - the complete repository (all history) is stored inside this .git directory | ||
| * even if you clone a repository from someone else, you have the full history available to work with - no further connection with them is required, unless you want future updates or to share code together | * even if you clone a repository from someone else, you have the full history available to work with - no further connection with them is required, unless you want future updates or to share code together | ||
| + | * **IF YOU ARE USING CYGWIN ON WINDOWS...**< | ||
| + | git config core.filemode false | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | * this tells git to ignore filemode permissions which do not work correctly on a non-unix host; if you don't do this, git will always complain that you are changing file permissions when you did nothing | ||
| * add all content to the index (some call it the cache, it means what is staged for the next commit)< | * add all content to the index (some call it the cache, it means what is staged for the next commit)< | ||
| git add . | git add . | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| * to "go back in time" and review a project at the point of a previous commit, you can do so by creating a branch at that point and then checking it out< | * to "go back in time" and review a project at the point of a previous commit, you can do so by creating a branch at that point and then checking it out< | ||
| - | git branch old 53067 | + | git checkout |
| - | git checkout 53067 | + | |
| (when finished, delete the branch) | (when finished, delete the branch) | ||