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A Useful Git Tutorial – Part II

October 25, 2015October 27, 2015 TheScorpius666 Leave a comment

The most popular questions about git always seem to be the same: When should I commit? How often should I commit? What exactly is a branch in my project? What is a tag?

Before getting into dirty grounds (and we’ll eventually get there) you should know a little about best practices when using git.

Note: If you haven’t read the post A Useful Git Tutorial – Part I you can check it here.

I’m sure the questions above have different answers depending on who you ask, but if you don’t have your own answers you’ll get them when you define your workflow.

A Useful Git Tutorial – Part I

October 24, 2015November 16, 2015 TheScorpius666 Leave a comment

You know what I really hate about git? Calling working directories as repositories and real repositories as bare repositories. This is somehow confusing for people like me coming from older and outdated control version systems like CVS or SVN.

But if you keep in mind what I said above and give git a chance you’d realize is the most powerful control version system ever created.

There are tons of git tutorials out there but I’m pretty sure none of them cover how 90% of the people use git: clone an existing project, make their own changes and try to keep them updated with the original project. Eventually submit patches.