Re: Xcode 4.2.1 Git can't commit
Re: Xcode 4.2.1 Git can't commit
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4.2.1 Git can't commit
- From: Richard Wackerbarth <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:51:19 -0600
On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
> That's the essence of my problem with Git. I'm one of those developers (I suspect there are many of us) who can use the command line but aren't really comfortable with it.
Bill,
From your prior description using dated zip files, I can assure you that you don't need to know much about git, in order to use it to accomplish equivalent capability.
Adding a tag to a particular tracking point is isomorphic to creating an archive of the particular state of the files.
(Although you will probably find doing so unnecessary since the state after each and every commit remains readily available.)
And, if you use a GUI such as GitX, diff-ing between any two tracking points is as easy as, if not easier than, specifying the files to "FileMerge".
I don't think that you should have to spend (a) any time in the command-line git, or (b) more than a few minutes learning to use a GUI access to a git repository.
Remember that a git repository is much like a data base. You can access it via any of a number of different mechanisms (Xcode, a Git GUI, the git command line, ...) and any changes made by one access method are immediately available to all of the others.
git (or for that matter, any version control system) provides a lot of capability that you can ignore (until you REALLY need that "extra" functionality). Just use the "basics" until the need arises for something more complex.
I know that it may be a new idea to you, but I've been using version control systems for (literally) forty years. I strongly suggest that you expend an hour or two and "modernize" your workflow. The tools available today are much more powerful, but also easier to use (at least in a superficial manner) than anything we had available "way back then".
Richard _______________________________________________
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