1 Main use case I am trying to accomplish: Edit wiki pages offline.
3 1. Imagine you're the administrator of the site and you want to checkout the wiki sources to give them some love while on a train journey.
4 2. Or you are writing a complex document and you want to simply use your favourite $EDITOR
5 3. Learn a little more about [git](http://git.or.cz/)
9 ## on webconverger.org/si.dabase.com/hendry
11 Wiki page created with [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). Example usb.mdwn [usb](http://webconverger.org/usb/)
13 ## on monty (my laptop)
15 I wonder why a "pull" doesn't just init a repo like a "svn co" does?
17 I think I should have used `git-clone ssh://si.dabase.com/home/hendry/wikiwc/.git/`
19 monty:~/git-testing% git-init
20 Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
22 You might want to set some config variables like your email as this [tutorial](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html) describes.
24 monty:~/git-testing% git-pull ssh://si.dabase.com/home/hendry/wikiwc/.git/
25 warning: no common commits
26 remote: Generating pack...
27 remote: Done counting 746 objects.
28 remote: Deltifying 746 objects...
29 remote: 100% (746/746) done
30 Indexing 746 objects...
31 remote: Total 746 (delta 443), reused 723 (delta 431)
33 Resolving 443 deltas...
36 echo "blah" >> usb.mdwn
37 monty:~/git-testing% git-commit -a -m "added test"
38 Created commit d3507df: added test
39 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
41 monty:~/git-testing% git-push ssh://si.dabase.com/home/hendry/wikiwc/.git/
42 updating 'refs/heads/master'
43 from 75a4a8e94e5fff2a4beced1574e772742d3f9847
44 to d3507dfe19b469e61a728d1b0a833a5f480f5802
46 Done counting 5 objects.
48 Deltifying 3 objects...
52 Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
53 refs/heads/master: 75a4a8e94e5fff2a4beced1574e772742d3f9847 -> d3507dfe19b469e61a728d1b0a833a5f480f5802
56 ## on webconverger.org/si.dabase.com/hendry
58 hendry:239$ git-status
60 # Changes to be committed:
61 # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
66 # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
70 Great, we see the usb.mdwn file has been modified. Now we need to check it out to update the local work tree (and the wiki?)
72 hendry:242$ git-checkout master usb.mdwn
75 # Stuff I am confused about
77 * this master/origin stuff
78 * why do I have to explicitly say the filename "usb.mdwn" for it to be updated?
79 * why do I have to explicitly have to write the url if I am going a git-pull again? I know I can alias it, but why can't it just pull from the last source?
80 * how ikiwiki interfaces with git. does it have its own working copy? or is it the files simply in ~/wikiwc?
81 * I know git-push seems unpopular (git-pull seems to have the emphasis), though I think it is really convenient
85 Thanks to gitte on #git on Freenode