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Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by Schwolop »

swang wrote: post #160
GlennS wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it would really help you to have a play with command line Git, just to get a feel for what's going on. SSH keys aren't hard to learn and are useful enough to be worth the time spent. By all means switch to using the GUI after.

It's not about being unfamiliar with the CLI, it's that Windows isn't like OSX/Linux in that you can just store your keys in a .ssh folder and be done with it (at least not if you don't use cygwin/msys) The method I chose in Windows was to use pageant (part of Putty) to load the keys. Not sure if I missed this option but you can't autoload keys so when you restart pageant you have to readd the keys (which is not terr…

You can autoload keys with pageant. You have to change the shortcut in your Programs\Startup folder that loads pageant itself. From memory I think it's as simple as adding the paths (in quotes) space separated after the executable. It's certainly in the help documentation at any rate.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

mattmanser wrote: post #169
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #167

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I think you're right and I guess that's what I'm beginning to realize. I just kind of assumed that in that case... Git is the wrong tool for their job. If you don't need the "power of Git" (I swear, I'm not in love with Git), then use Dropbox or SVN or something simpler. Seems easier than fighting with keys, and then fighting with git's distributed nature and then fighting with all of the complexities of merging and…

I'm sure you'd love to still be programming in assembly, but some of us prefer to spend our time actually, you know, not mucking around with stuff that is an utter waste of our time.

It takes less than 4 minutes to do. And way to ignore every, other, thing I mention in there, like how something else is probably better suited for your needs if you think it is an "utter waste of time".

The level of discourse and use the downvote just amazes me anymore. Seriously, how can you be that much of a douche after I made very basic, undisputed points?

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by toddheasley »

nknight wrote: post #149
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #112

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My apologies, I abuse "PKI" to mean "PK infrastructure" (which I know is what the acronym stands for, I'm making a bit of tongue-in-cheek commentary), I think it's silly that PKI implicitly means CAs but according to Wikipedia at least, you're correct.

No, he isn't, and the relevant Wikipedia article is very poorly written. PKI is a highly generic term. Webs of trust are just as much a PKI as a certificate-based system. Everything you've said in this thread has been bang-on, and the replies you're getting are deeply depressing.

Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by j-kidd »

trun wrote: post #74
martinaglv wrote: post #62

For those of you looking for a nice Git client for Windows, I suggest checking out TortoiseGit[1]. I can't recommend it enough. It is such a powerful peace of software and I am surprised it is not brought up in discussions more often. http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

I use TortoiseGit (and was a long time user of TortoiseSVN before that), but I find it to be a poor substitute for the command line. I feel like they tried to make the names of git commands more user friendly, but having already grown accustomed to misnomers like "git checkout" it often takes me a little while to find the right action in TortoiseGit.

Perhaps the commands renaming was done to make TortoiseGit more consistent with TortoiseHg and TortoiseBzr?

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by rbanffy »

andybak wrote: post #140
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #121

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You can't follow 3 step-by-step instructions, insult me by implying I'm flaming and then drudge up completely unrelated tools in a discussion about ssh-keygen? What do you people want? Seriously? Yes, I'd love to have a big red easy button. It could autoconfigure MySQL, and write init scripts, configure deploy environments because apache conf files are too complicated to learn. Hell, it could even write my backend co…

I apologise. My comment was only modestly related to it's context. I've been suffering from a bit of *nix-fatigue at the moment and I wanted to vent.

From looking at the desktops of an ordinary office, it may be difficult to realize that, when you are talking about internet connected servers, it's a very *nix world.

One of the reasons why I recommend using Linux on the desktop if you develop software for anything non-Windows: it's handy to have more exposure to the environment your code will run on. If you run Eclipse to develop Java code that'll run under Tomcat on Linux, you have a lot to gain by moving to Linux yourself.

If, for some reason, I end up writing Windows-specific code once again, I'll probably develop it on a Windows box. Visual Studio is a great IDE if you want to write programs for Windows.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by rbanffy »

toddheasley wrote: post #173
nknight wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he isn't, and the relevant Wikipedia article is very poorly written. PKI is a highly generic term. Webs of trust are just as much a PKI as a certificate-based system. Everything you've said in this thread has been bang-on, and the replies you're getting are deeply depressing.

Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?

Understanding key pairs is very basic knowledge. I don't expect people to understand everything, but things like this, I do. It's dangerous not to.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by rbanffy »

swang wrote: post #160
GlennS wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it would really help you to have a play with command line Git, just to get a feel for what's going on. SSH keys aren't hard to learn and are useful enough to be worth the time spent. By all means switch to using the GUI after.

It's not about being unfamiliar with the CLI, it's that Windows isn't like OSX/Linux in that you can just store your keys in a .ssh folder and be done with it (at least not if you don't use cygwin/msys) The method I chose in Windows was to use pageant (part of Putty) to load the keys. Not sure if I missed this option but you can't autoload keys so when you restart pageant you have to readd the keys (which is not terr…

> Windows isn't like OSX/Linux in that you can just store your keys in a .ssh folder and be done with it (at least not if you don't use cygwin/msys)

Then, by all means, use Cygwin or anything that helps you, even if it doesn't come with Windows, if it isn't provided by Microsoft, doesn't look familiar and if it doesn't play well with Visual Studio. If you code for Windows you are coding against an insanely complicated set of APIs.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by LocalPCGuy »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #127

It's great - one downside though: it has added a Github folder in "My Documents" that I can't seem to delete. I hate when unwanted folders pop in like that.

It was pretty easy to go into the Options and change the default folder, for instance, I have a /git/ folder at the root of my drive with my repos in it.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by trun »

lancefisher wrote: post #163
trun wrote: post #74

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I use TortoiseGit (and was a long time user of TortoiseSVN before that), but I find it to be a poor substitute for the command line. I feel like they tried to make the names of git commands more user friendly, but having already grown accustomed to misnomers like "git checkout" it often takes me a little while to find the right action in TortoiseGit.

Checkout in SVN does not mean the same as it does in git. SVN Checkout is more like Git Clone. Checkout in git means change to a different branch. You "checkout a branch" in git. I think it is better for TortoiseGit to match the semantics of git rather than match the semantics of TortoiseSVN. It causes some confusion coming from SVN for sure, but once you start using git, you should learn its dialect. It would be wor…

That was my point. For example, TortoiseGit presents "revert" instead of "checkout" (e.g. on a file, not a branch). "revert" in git actually means something else entirely.

Re: GitHub for Windows

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Post by LocalPCGuy »

kjajula wrote: post #59

A nice addition would be Settings/Preferences where I can add or point to internal company github.

I would like the ability to add multiple folders to the path where it looks for local git repositories. For various reasons, I have repositories clustered in a few different spots on my drive. I tried to use the Windows Libraries, but as expected, it wanted a directory.
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