I am new to github (I used it because Ralf suggested it) so I don't really
know how to use it but it seems to work for me. I go to
http://github.com/martinbaker/multivector/
then click on:
clifford.spad.pamphlet
under multivector / section of the page. This shows the text of the pamphlet
file. Can anyone else see it? I would welcome any advise if there is a better
way to use github?
There is a "Download Source" button on
http://github.com/martinbaker/multivector
But using
git clone git://github.com/martinbaker/multivector.git
is the way to obtain the (read-only) sources. Actually 'read-only' is
nonsense for git, since when you clone a repository, you have everything
local and even can commit (locally). By read-only, I just meant that you
cannot push your changes back to Martin's github account.
Even better (for other people than Martin Baker) to create an account on
github and than click the "Fork" button on
http://github.com/martinbaker/multivector
This gives a read/write repository which you can publicly write to and
leaves Martin with the option to fetch your changes.
I've just done this
http://github.com/hemmecke/multivector
Now I could say
git clone [email protected]:hemmecke/multivector.git
(Note that the difference to the 'git clone' above!)
That gives me a local directory "multivector" on my laptop. I can then
modify Martin's file(s), commit and push the changes back to my
repository at github via
... edit inside multivector
git add FILE-THAT-WAS-CHANGED
git commit # commit locally
git push origin master # push back to github
Now Martin has the option to pull my changes into his repository. Just
by adding my repository as a "remote". On his local computer (inside
multivector) he would say
git remote add ralf git://github.com/hemmecke/multivector.git
(needs to be done only once)
and finally
git fetch ralf
(that only fetches my changes but doesn't merge them to
the current branch)
or
git pull ralf master
(that will fetch and merge to the master branch)
I haven't yet done this myself, but if there is interest I try to figure
it out and put a note on the Axiom-Wiki. I'll do that anyway in the next
few days, but "interest of others" might increase my motivation to start.
Anyway, with git there is no danger in losing data. One can easily go
back and clean up a mangled repository. However, it's maybe even easier
to test all the commands first on a clone of your original repository.
If there are any more questions left (wrt. git), I'd be happy to answer
them.
Best,
Ralf
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