{"id":21199,"date":"2015-07-09T22:55:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21199"},"modified":"2015-07-10T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:50:09","slug":"git-some-version-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/09\/git-some-version-control\/","title":{"rendered":"GIT Some Version Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

My project to write a replacement for Quicken was getting to the point where I decided I needed some version control of my software. I have used many flavors of this kind of software during my career. I think the first was DEC’s C(ode) M(anagement) S(ystem) – CMS. I have also used SCCS, RCS, CVS, and Cleartool. Rather than just use one of the tools I have used before, I decided to look into what is current. I have heard a lot about GIT<\/a>. I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n

There is a book out, Pro Git book<\/a>, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress. This should give you more idea of what GIT is, if you don’t already know.<\/p>\n

I had GIT up and running very quickly, but there were a few operations that I was used to that I could not figure out how to do. All of the documentation that I could find on the web assumed you understood a key concept that I wasn’t getting. It finally dawned on me what the issue was, so I drew a picture to clarify the idea. If you are a GIT beginner, you might find it helpful.<\/p>\n

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My issue was that I had two cloned repositories and I wanted to update one from the work in the other. At the time, I had not created a hub, and didn’t know why I would need one. Now I see that the clone repositories aren’t really meant to talk to each other. Their common means of communication is only through the hub. It is possible to set up a local hub. It only took me 39 different commands to do it. Only the last 4 of those commands were necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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