MSysGit is definitely a good option to downloading Cygwin and building Git from source.
As far as explaining how Git works... this is a subject that's a bit too large for a Google Groups post. But to at least give you some reassurance that Git isn't just a whole lot of (coding) magic that you just have to trust: 1. Git does track changes in the repository directory (on demand... aka when you run a git command). This isn't that big of trick as most version control system can do that. You can imagine various ways: size, timestamps, hashes, etc. 2. You can go ahead and change files and commit those updates to your local repository. By going through the commit history, it can determine the common parent between branches and start applying the commits from one to another (aka merging or rebasing). (Changes in remote repositories such as the official Insoshi repository on GitHub are brought in as branches to your local repository.) Definitely take a look at our Git Guides at docs.insoshi.com to get the basics of working with Git in the context of working on Insoshi code. Long On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Antony Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, > > I found this installer for getting Git going on Windows, it seemed to > do the trick without too much trouble: > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ > > Could anyone explain to me how the devil this git thing works though? > What happens if I want to change some of the files (for instance to > change the view or add some widget or other) and then want to receive > further updates? How does it know which files to change and which not > to?? (sorry for the very basic question!!) > > Thanks, > Antony > > > -- Long Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Insoshi developer site: http://dogfood.insoshi.com/ Insoshi documentation: http://docs.insoshi.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Insoshi" group. 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/insoshi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
