auto generate .gitignore and .gitattribute file in the directory of your choosing with XCode script menu option

The problem with git pull is that it has all kinds of helpful magic that means you don’t really have to learn about the different types of branch in git. Mostly things Just Work, but when they don’t it’s often difficult to work out why.

learn git one commit at a time by Nick Quaranto

Sometimes I wonder why git users still use the old ways to manage dependencies for their projects. And when I say “dependencies” I mean things like plugins, not gems – Rails config takes care of gems for us, of course. But really, why bother with old script/install and all these tools like piston, etc, if we have that awesome VCS tool called git, and it has that awesome feature called submodules.

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Version control, also known as source control or revision control is an integral part of any development workflow. Why? It is essentially a communication tool, just like email or IM, but it works with code rather than human conversation.

A while back Mark expressed interest to me in using git and git-svn for version control on his own machine, against a remote Subversion repository. However,

Lately I’ve been helping a few people to get started on Github. I use git at the command line and my survival guide is also based on that way of interacting with Git. So I thought I’d write the procedure up so that I can just point people to this page.