How do you create a new project/repository?
A git repository is simply a directory containing a special .git
directory.
This is different from "centralised" version-control systems (like subversion), where a "repository" is hosted on a remote server, which you checkout
into a "working copy" directory. With git, your working copy is the repository.
Simply run git init
in the directory which contains the files you wish to track.
For example,
cd ~/code/project001/
git init
This creates a .git
(hidden) folder in the current directory.
To make a new project, run git init
with an additional argument (the name of the directory to be created):
git init project002
(This is equivalent to: mkdir project002 && cd project002 && git init)
To check if the current current path is within a git repository, simply run git status
- if it's not a repository, it will report "fatal: Not a git repository"
You could also list the .git
directory, and check it contains files/directories similar to the following:
$ ls .git
HEAD config hooks/ objects/
branches/ description info/ refs/
If for whatever reason you wish to "de-git" a repository (you wish to stop using git to track that project). Simply remove the .git
directory at the base level of the repository.
cd ~/code/project001/
rm -rf .git/
Caution: This will destroy all revision history, all your tags, everything git has done. It will not touch the "current" files (the files you can currently see), but previous changes, deleted files and so on will be unrecoverable!
You can use git show
with a path from the root of the repository (./
or ../
for relative pathing):
$ git show REVISION:path/to/file
Replace REVISION
with your actual revision (could be a Git commit SHA, a tag name, a branch name, a relative commit name, or any other way of identifying a commit in Git)
For example, to view the version of file <repository-root>/src/main.c
from 4 commits ago, use:
$ git show HEAD~4:src/main.c
Git for Windows requires forward slashes even in paths relative to the current directory. For more information, check out the man page for git-show
.
Best Answer
You need to enable Alternate Authentication Credentials if you want to use other Git clients outside of Visual Studio...
To set up alternate creds in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), click on your name/icon on the top right -> Security -> Alternate Authentication Credentials
Edit: Add more details about this from VSTS (taken from the alternate credentials screen)...