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bnmurphy / PMCAMx-2008

This Repository is for testing version control between SU, Patras, and CMU
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I am the most confused #11

Closed Marshlight closed 10 years ago

Marshlight commented 10 years ago

Trying to install everything - and it's pretty obvious I have no natural abilities in this arena. Whaaaaaat is going on. So I guess the base directory is the only one in which you can report issues? Mine doesn't look like it has that option. Also I have no idea how to add a branch to my local machine - it looks like it's the master I copied, not the MCD branch I tried to make... will keep going through the help files but it seems like the command line is more helpful than the GUI for setup which is also confusing. I'd like to ask for an explicit list of how to set up but I know the information is probably out there already and I'm just being really slow on the uptake. Anyway if you have a process maybe let me know. Otherwise this is just babbling confusion so @LauraPosner will probably feel better when she attempts this.

Marshlight commented 10 years ago

Also is this normal?

mday@DHB202-1 /c/Program Files/Git $ git clone https://github.com/Marshlight/PMCAMx-2008.git Cloning into 'PMCAMx-2008'... Username for 'https://github.com': marshlight Password for 'https://marshlight@github.com': remote: Counting objects: 439, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (329/329), done. remote: Total 439 (delta 107), reused 439 (delta 107) Receiving objects: 100% (439/439), 6.67 MiB | 6.33 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (107/107), done. Checking connectivity... done error: unable to create file Inc/ahomap.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/bndary.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/camx.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/camxfld.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/cdfids.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/chmstry.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/ddmchm.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/deposit.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/filunit.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/flags.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/grid.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/iehchem.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/pigsty.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/procan.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/ptemiss.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/rtracchm.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/soap.com (Permission denied) error: unable to create file Inc/tracer.com (Permission denied) fatal: unable to checkout working tree warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed. You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status' and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'

bnmurphy commented 10 years ago

That is not normal I'm afraid. This stuff is definitely confusing. I'm still very confused most minutes. But we'll work through it. Good motivation for frequent skyping. Talk to you tomorrow!

Marshlight commented 10 years ago

So is the GUI useless or am I just reallyyyyy bad at this? I updated CAMx_daily using Step 2 and 3 of https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo (this seems like maybe a lot of work for tiny edits?!) but couldn't figure out how to make it work outside of the command line. I also thought I figured out how to store my password but it still asks me for it each time so I guess not. Maybe tomorrow we can have a shared-screen session of how this is supposed to go for normal people...

sebarn commented 10 years ago

@Marshlight Are you on Windows? If you try to add files to a system directory (not really sure if"Program Files" qualifies, but it could) it may be that you actually need admin rights for that. So just try to use a different folder for your git stuff, maybe "My Documents"?

May I ask why you are not using the github GUI :-)? It's definitely easier to start learning git with that than going to the command line directly.

Or are you just that hard-core? :-)

sebarn commented 10 years ago

btw, don't try for too long and end up frustrated. we can help you tomorrow with scree-sharing :-)

Marshlight commented 10 years ago

Bahaha I am not hardcore, I assure you. It just seemed to work better than the GUI for whatever reason. I'm on Windows, and the admin rights thing you describe is probably what's happening. To move my stuff do I need to reinstall git elsewhere then? I don't have a handle on how to move folders, because although there's a PMCAMx folder visible via Git command line, it doesn't actually exist if I go to that folder using Windows Explorer.

bnmurphy commented 10 years ago

I think the issue here (other than admin rights), is that command-line is annoying since you need to know exactly what you want to do, and the Github GUI is also annoying, since it only let's you do a quarter of the things you can actually do.

I would rely on the Github GUI for a little bit, just to practice pushing and pulling, but if you feel like you've out-grown it, try http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/

bnmurphy commented 10 years ago

I think we resolved all this with the Github gui client for now, yes?