Git is a system centered around the idea of a save point, a commit. When you use the source control software you create many commits throughout the life cycle of the application. These save points serve a number of purposes such as showing what you did to create a given ( more… )
In working with the apprentices that I work with a common issues is forgetting to add a .gitignore file when you initially setup the repository. This can suck in the long run as many files that you don’t want to track start showing up in your repository and worse yet ( more… )
Git is a source control management system, hence http://git-scm.com. By source this actually refers to any file of any type. We can add any file that we want to the system and begin tracking modifications to that file. As we create other related files we can add those to the system as ( more… )
In working with apprentices new to Git and really new to source control in general, I have come across a couple cases where someone will have a repository defined within a repository. In these cases the parent repository is not tracking the files within the subdirectory and there appears to ( more… )
In some cases you may run the git commit –all command and think that it will stage and commit all the changes, deletions and new files that you have in your project. The truth is in the documentation of the git commit, though… git commit documentation -a –all Tell the ( more… )