setting up git

Continuing my installation streak, I wanted to setup Git. I find this particularly useful when mucking around with a new coding language. As I'm making my way through what works and what doesn't, it's a tremendous help to know that in case I accidentally get too creative in my coding experiments, I always have something to easily fall back to. Now there are already lots of good discussions (e.g., see here and here) about Git vs other versioning control systems (VCS) (I personally used to use Subversion before switching to Git). As a…Read more …