On 20 September 2014 08:23, Joanna Gunst <joannagu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Complete newbie here. > I believe I just installed Git on my home computer but when I double click > on it all I get is the code window. I did configure in my name and email as > I believed that was the first step but now what. > All I get is still just the code window. I guess I was expecting the > interface that might look something like this: > http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=git+program&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=git+program&sc=8-11&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=190F433C0D634694130EF23511BD6539DDBD3ABF&selectedIndex=26 > Obviously I am missing something. > Please advise.
Hi Joanna git by itself is purely a command-line-interface tool. If you want to use it by mouse then you will also need to install one or more additional tools that provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that drives the underlying git. The git project provides two of these, git-gui and gitk, they each do different things. They are all I use personally for all my work. There are many more to choose from, see for example: http://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux So if you want a particular GUI interface to git, you will need to find out its name and install it separately. Also be aware that there are many vastly different computing environments, and so you can't assume that ours are like yours in any way. When you write "on my home computer when I double click on it", unfortunately that provides insufficient information to assist you. We can't help unless you describe your system exactly: Mac/Windows/Linux/ environment/version, screenshot, etc. "Installing" will be different on all those systems. For example, I never "double click" on anything when I use git. So even though I have been using git for years, your problem description is unclear to me. It was helpful communication to show us an image of what you expected, but next time you might get more response if you simply link direct to the image instead of to a proprietary search engine (bing.com) that then requires us to run its javascript just to see your image. Git comes from the world of truly free (liberated) software, and many people who create, use and advocate truly free software do avoid or disdain the use of such proprietary/nonfree code and will not touch your link. I clicked it reluctantly as a favour :) If you find a online tutorial and work through it, that also can provide a good context for asking questions about aspects you're not understanding. See content and links at http://git-scm.com/doc You might also get some helpful advice if you take a step back and explain to us why you installed git, and what you hope to use it for. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
