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Re: Source Management

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From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Date	Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:15:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:36:55 +0100, Eternal Hope wrote:

> On 03/08/2015 16:00, e.d.programmer@gmail.com wrote:
>> There was another thread discussing Sourceforge and github which was
>> off topic so I started a new thread.
>> What is a good offline source management software?  We're using
>> SourceTree but either it needs a lot of configuration we can't figure
>> out or it just plain sucks.
> 
> Well it might suck, or it might not depending on your point of view but
> I'm pretty sure you can do anything you need to with git, after all,
> it's the tool used to manage the Linux kernel source and there are
> probably dozens if not hundreds of contributors to that.
> 
> I can't say I've found the canonical git documentation.
> This link https://progit.org/ points to the docs I'm currently using. I
> only use the Linux terminal CLI I have to admit, fancy GUI interfaces
> don't *always* make things clearer/easier to use, at least not for me.

I suppose the mother lode is "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
Its downloadable from 

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 

as PDF, mobi or epub, is readable as HTML from that URL. Or you can buy a 
paper copy. 

I thought that was overkill but like dead-tree reference material, so I 
bought the "GIT Pocket Guide" by Richard Silverman, an O'Reilly book. 

As a user guide its fine except for one point that rather screwed me up 
when I set up my first git repository for a pre-existing source tree: the 
"Ignoring files" section on page 42 should be at the end of page 38, 
because you need to tell git which files to ignore *before* you create 
the empty repository. If you do things in the order given in the book you 
find you've sucked files you'd want to ignore, such as *.class files, 
into the repository before setting up the to-be-ignored list.

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martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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Source Management e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-08-03 08:00 -0700
  Re: Source Management Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-08-03 18:04 +0200
    Re: Source Management e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-08-03 12:08 -0700
      Re: Source Management leif.roar@dimnakorr.com - 2015-08-03 16:09 -0500
  Re: Source Management Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 21:36 +0100
    Re: Source Management Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-04 09:15 +0000
      Re: Source Management Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 17:02 +0100
  Re: Source Management Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-08-03 21:06 +0000
  Re: Source Management Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-08-03 21:10 -0400

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