Thank you Sean. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Ben Alembick <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The more i think about this the more i don't understand how its is all > meant to work. I have EGIT installed and have kinda gotten the hang of > committing, adding to version control & resource history on a local project > stored on my machine. > > There are several CF folks who are much more experienced with git than > I but I don't know if they're on cf-talk these days. > > Anyway, the basic concept of git is that instead of a single, central > repo, everyone has a repo and git allows people to clone from one > place to another and merge back so that everyone has the complete > history locally and at any point, any given repo can be designated the > "master" and patches from other repos merged into it. > > > However i have my live sites on a remote server hosted (at Alurium) how > should i go about getting the sites onto my local machine and using GIT? > then syncing? > > You've got a lot of options - fortunately or unfortunately depending > on your point of view. You could just maintain local git repos for > each site simply by putting an up to date copy of each site on your > local machine and then doing git init in each top-level folder. You > could also get an account on one of the various service providers that > offer git hosting - Assembla is extremely good but there are several > others. The docs for the provider will walk you through the steps > involved in either creating a remote repo, cloning it locally (empty), > adding your code and then committing it back to the provider or > importing your local git repo up to the provider. > > I'd highly recommend paying for a service like that since you then get > remote access from any machine - including your live servers if you > chose to deploy direct from git - as well as having your source code > in a secure location that is backed up regularly. > > Hope that helps point you in a useful direction... > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
