Re: [Traverso-devel] using git / QtCreator

[Ingmar Vanhassel]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:35:30PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Remon,
> from my very limited experience as git user and from second hand
> experience through lurking I know that git doesn't come without
> problems. Maybe the app you intend to use has a nice gui that makes it
> easy to use but so far I've seen quite some LADs running into problems.
> Consider trying it before switching to it entirely.
> git is a powerful beast, don't overlook the beast part..
> 
> So yeah, I used it and it's fine by me but I haven't got my head around
> it and am not very comfortable with checking out anything but the
> master branch.

It's as simple as 
$ git checkout otherbranch
and to get back on master
$ git checkout master

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html is a very
nice introducation, and
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitcvs-migration.html
should be an interesting read if you have past CVS experience.

Anyway, while you can learn git from a relatively small subset of
commands, which I'm sure you'll find out after reading the above guides,
I'll try my best to answer any questions that may pop up. :)

> This might be because one can only check out the whole
> thing anyway, if I got that right.. as said, haven't got my head around
> it..

You can do a clone without full history, but a shallow clone, as it's
called, isn't equally functional, so I'd never bother.
A full traverso clone takes 7MB, and gives you complete history, so with
todays hardware I don't really see issues with that.

> If it helps you it's helpful ;)

Well said. ;-)

> Best,
> Philipp

HTH,
-Ingmar

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