Monthly Archives: April 2010

Git in Windows – Getting Started with the Git GUI

Your writing a book and you expect to spend about a year on the project.  To set up your folders, you make a directory called “mybook” and subfolders called “research” and “thebook.” In “thebook” folder you intend to have a … Continue reading

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Installing Git on Windows

Git is an open source, free, distributed, version control system created by Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux.  A version control system tracks changes in the files and folders of your project over time, and allows you to recover back … Continue reading

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Search Everything – a Review

I have more than one pet peeve about how Windows works. I’ll bet you do, too. Let me see, there’s boot time, the infamous Vista UAC, shut down time, and searching for files. That puppy dog in the XP search … Continue reading

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Git for Windows, and Changing Directories, part 1

Recently I switched my version control software from Bazaar to Git. I did this for a couple of reasons, one of which was I was using Tortoise Bazaar and every time I had to find a file in my Windows … Continue reading

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