Thanks! So I decided to install the Windows version locally (I do web dev but also .NET dev, so seems circuitous to run it on unix for my .NET projects).
For the web development work I'll just deploy it myself with FTP, but wanted to ask: is there any convenient way to have it build a directory structure for a subset of files, such as all the files in a branch? For example: say I have this web server file structure >/public_html/index.php >/public_html/config.php >/public_html/style/style.css >/public_html/style/typography.css locally I modify only index.php and style.css it would be nice if there was some way to "checkout" these files and have it build their file paths. In Visual Source Safe, it actually stores all your files in the VSS database. So you can delete you working copy, and checkout a few files, and it will write them to your working directory in their appropriate directory structures. Is there something like that in GIT? if so then I could just export the modifies files and upload the root folder (public_html) to the server On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:33:54 AM UTC+9, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > > > > On Monday, September 10, 2012 1:11:24 PM UTC+2, maxhodges wrote: >> >> I'm new to Git (have never used it yet), and have a couple questions >> about basic install and config that I can't find clear answers to in the >> manual. >> >> I want to use Git for version control of web site development files >> (html, css, php). Do I need to install it on my unix webserver? > > > This depends on how your deployment works. Some people copy stuff from > their own development machine to the webserver. Others build and distribute > a zip file to the server. If you want to use Git itself to distribute the > production code, you will need to install it on the webserver. Some example > approaches are documented here: > > http://sitaramc.github.com/the-list-and-irc/deploy.html > > >> Or can I use the Windows version here on my desktop and manage/deploy the >> files to the web server? > > > As above, if you prefer ftp'ing or scp'ing the files to the server, feel > free to do this, as you can use Git for revision control and still do > deplyment your own way. > > >> If I must install it on the webserver, can I use the Windows GUI to >> checkout the files, or is my only choice to learn the commands and check >> files it and out using the command-line over SSH or something? >> > > This depends on the server you have. If it is some kind of remote machine > (Windows Server, etc), you can probably use a GUI. If it's some linux > machine, you'll probably have to stick to the command line via SSH. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/A8yEc3Uu5ksJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
