Re: CM 1.1 git question

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 19.02.2009 20:56, Jonathan Kulp disait :
> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > On 2/19/09 9:53 AM, "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > This sounds really useful.  I'd like to try to get comfortable with git
> > > on a project of my own, something that doesn't have an online repo.  How
> > > do I create a local git version of a directory on my machine?  I tried
> > > creating a new directory to house the new git repo and then doing
> > >
> > > git-clone ~/Documents/DirectoryName/
> >
> > You don't have a git repository of your stuff, so you can't clone the
> > repository.
> >
> > The way I do it is to change to ~/Documents/DirectoryName/ and type
> >
> > git init
> >
> > which will create an empty repository in the current directory.  Then you
> > add your files to the repository by typing
> >
> > git add *
> >
> > which adds all the files to the staging area, followed by
> >
> > git commit
> >
> > which commits them to the repository.  And now you're off and running!
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Carl
> Thanks Carl & Maximilian for this help.  I've got it going now.  At the 
> moment I don't see all the advantages of it for this project but I'm 
> getting used to the git commands and conventions at least.  It's a big 
> lilypond-book project so it has tons of extra files that get created 
> when I compile and I'm not sure if I want git tracking all those or not. 
>  It seems unnecessary to track anything but the source code files. After 
> I compile, though, and then do "git status" I get an enormous number of 
> untracked files created since the last commit.  I just go through and 
> add the ones I want tracked, commit them and I'm done I guess.  Thanks 
> for the help with git.  I appreciate it and I'm guessing this thread 
> will be helpful for other noobs in the future. :)
>
> Jon

Just have a look at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#ignoring-files

(git user's manual, section 3-Developing with git)

and the .gitignore file at the top directory of your LilyPond's repository.


HTH
Jean-Charles