到今天为止，我终于可以不用挠头来探索这个git的使用原理了。。。。
虽然觉得自己的英语还不错，但是之前面对git的时候，真的是觉得好失败哦！
大家可能对SVN以及CVS可能会有那么熟悉，但是对于才出来的挨踢们，可能对于git还不是那么熟悉。因为彼此彼此咯。
好了，我们进入正题哦。Git是Linus.Torvald为了管理Linux内核发起并开发的一个开源分布式版本控件系统,作为分布式版本控制系统的重要代表——Git已经为越来越多的人所认识，它相对于我们熟悉的CVS、SVN甚至同时分布式控制系统的Mercurial，有哪些优势和不足呢？
这里我给出一个链接，是一个git研究着的使用心得以及介绍：：
http://os.51cto.com/art/201101/244051.htm，git的历险记哦！
其实吧，我现在觉着这个Git就像一个创库呀，这样，我们1将我们自己的代码写下来，然后传到我们本地的库里面，然胡在推送上去（push到服务器），先我们为本地的库搭建一个环境，那么，我们就需要下载两个东西：MsysGit以及TortoiseGit。只有有了他们我们才能将本地与服务器给拉扯上。
http://msysgit.github.io/这是下载MsysGit的地址
https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/wiki/Download 这个就是下载TortoiseGit的地址，当然，里面会有一个根据自己电脑位数的选择。
然后将他们俩儿分别安装。
其实我是这样理解这两者的：MsysGit是一个以命令窗口执行的源码管理库，而TortoiseGit只是也单纯的一个显示器。只是个友好的界面交互。也就是说MsysGit可以单独运行，只是对于级别不是很高的Git的用户呢还是有一点费劲哦，所以这时我们就可以安装使用TortoiseGit来简化MsysGit， 其实就是一个将命令窗口客户端化了，这样，我们
就能 更简单的操作Git了
我们要先点击安装MsysGit，然后在安装TortoiseGit，这样才不会出现程序上的错误。
然后··鼠标·右键就会·发现·多了几个关于Git的操作。
如图：
好吧，这就是右键后的效果。但是可能又有人会问，这个Git Clone Git a responstory at here and the TortoiseGit在这里是干什么的呢？
“动手做呀！”嘿嘿，其实我觉着这个Git肯定不能速成，有些东西必须要经过时间的积累以及冶炼才能成熟。
GitClone是用于将别人的代码或者project 克隆下来，然后自己新建一个地址来存它。
eg：
大家会看到两种方式的链接，前面的SSH，其实是对于Git有很深以及要很保密的操作才会去应用的一种需要加密验证的比较安全的链接方式。
而HTTPs呢，就是我们需要clone的时候点击clone，然后会出来一个弹框，然后将这个链接天道URL里面就ok来。
然后也可以直接点击Download去下载别人的好的例子来参考，就可以直接将Download了。
当然这里的第二个概念就是建立一个相应链接地址。这样我们就可以将自己的代码存到本地，然后经过推送到到我们的GitLab上面。
如果已经存到本地了，就直接推送就ok啦，在传输的过程会出现输入自己的用户呢称以及密码，然后就ok啦！
然后我们可以马上进入·www.gitLab.com里面然后登入自己的Git号，这样我们就可以进入到自己的页面进行new a project。。。名字自己写，然后我们就可以推送自己的项目了。
当然这里还有我们push的时候会看到下面的这个界面，然后看到显示蓝色的success就是成功了，如果显示红色就是失败，
一
般失败会有三个原因，一
就是你操作的那个Git与另外的一个库有牵连，二就是你操作不当，三就是可能因为服务器的原因导致某一个文件没有传输上去，而引起所有的文件传输失败。
我们一般创建的android项目中的关于项目配置这些Setting文件其实是可以不上传的，而且上传的服务器的时候他会检查哪些文件是空的，然后快捷传输（不上传空文件）
好吧！确实还有一件事很重要给遗漏了。那就是在关于操作git的时候。
在操作git的时候，eg：
一个人上传了一个项目到git，但是另外一个人也参与了进来，也就是说他们两个要针对这一个项目进行整改。so，这里就会出现一个理论性的问题。比如甲是管理这个项目的master，然而，乙想要操作这个项目的话，
第一步：下载 然后，记住最重要的是要给自己留后路，也就是不要在这个原项目上修改，不然后悔都来不及，所以，建立分支是很重要的，你基于这个项目建立一个分支，然后在这个分支上面操作自己的整改。然后commit到本地。这是git的工作模式，然后在最后的时候在push到git服务器上。在这期间，我们还可以进行拿回（fetch），也就是作为master该干的事情了。在你进行合并的时候，你就需要在本地的分支里面去拿回参与者修改的分支（基于这个项目其它的分支），然后，在进行合并。这里最好是看一看其它分支的概念，以及与自己的分支是否有分歧，然后手动正确后，就可以进行Merge（合并）了（记住，只要是commit都是在自己本地的库里面进行操作。这样，保证了自己的准确性），然后，push到服务器上就okay。这样，我们的一个项目就这样被同步到服务器上了。
其实svn比起来就简单多了。但是都还不错了，各取所长了。嘿嘿。
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This fixes issues 236 and 247. ⦁ gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts). ⦁ In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222 and 229). ⦁ git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of the git-svn reports. Changes since Git-1.6.2.1-preview20090322 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.6.2.2. ⦁ Upgraded Tcl/Tk to 8.5.5. ⦁ TortoiseMerge is supported by mergetool now. ⦁ Uses pthreads (faster garbage collection on multi-core machines). ⦁ The test suite passes! Bugfixes ⦁ Renaming was made more robust (due to Explorer or some virus scanners, files could not be renamed at the first try, so we have to try multiple times). ⦁ Johannes Sixt made lots of changes to the test-suite to identify properly which tests should pass, and which ones cannot pass due to limitations of the platform. ⦁ Support PAGERs with spaces in their filename. ⦁ Quite a few changes were undone which we needed in the olden days of msysGit. ⦁ Fall back to / when HOME cannot be set to the real home directory due to locale issues (works around Issue 108 for the moment). Changes since Git-1.6.2-preview20090308 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.6.2.1. ⦁ A portable application is shipped in addition to the installer (Issue 195). ⦁ Comes with a Windows-specific mmap() implementation (Issue 198). Bugfixes ⦁ ANSI control characters are no longer shown verbatim (Issue 124). ⦁ Temporary files are created respecting core.autocrlf (Issue 177). ⦁ The Git Bash prompt is colorful again (Issue 199). ⦁ Fixed crash when hardlinking during a clone failed (Issue 204). ⦁ An infinite loop was fixed in git-gui (Issue 205). ⦁ The ssh protocol is always used with plink.exe (Issue 209). ⦁ More vim files are shipped now, so that syntax highlighting works. Changes since Git-1.6.1-preview20081225 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.6.2. ⦁ Comes with upgraded vim 7.2. ⦁ Compiled with GCC 4.3.3. ⦁ The user can choose the preferred CR/LF behavior in the installer now. ⦁ Peter Kodl contributed support for hardlinks on Windows. ⦁ The bash prompt shows information about the current repository. Bugfixes ⦁ If supported by the file system, pack files can grow larger than 2gb. ⦁ Comes with updated msys-1.0.dll (should fix some Vista issues). ⦁ Assorted fixes to support the new libexec/git-core/ layout better. ⦁ Read-only files can be properly replaced now. ⦁ git-svn is included again (original caveats still apply). ⦁ Obsolete programs from previous installations are cleaned up. Changes since Git-1.6.0.2-preview20080923 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.6.1. ⦁ Avoid useless console windows. ⦁ Installer remembers how to handle PATH. Changes since Git-1.6.0.2-preview20080921 Bugfixes ⦁ ssh works again. ⦁ 'git add -p' works again. ⦁ Various programs that aborted with 'Assertion failed: argv0_path' are fixed. Changes since Git-1.5.6.1-preview20080701 Removed Features ⦁ git svn is excluded from the end-user installer (see Known Issues). New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.6.0.2. Bugfixes ⦁ No Windows-specific bugfixes. Changes since Git-1.5.6-preview20080622 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.5.6.1. Bugfixes ⦁ Includes fixed msys-1.0.dll that supports Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Issue 122). ⦁ cmd wrappers do no longer switch off echo. Changes since Git-1.5.5-preview20080413 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.5.6. ⦁ Installer supports configuring a user provided Plink (PuTTY). Bugfixes ⦁ Comes with tweaked msys-1.0.dll to solve some command line mangling issues. ⦁ cmd wrapper does no longer close the command window. ⦁ Programs in the system PATH, for example editors, can be launched from Git without specifying their full path. ⦁ "git stash apply stash@{1}" works. ⦁ Comes with basic ANSI control code emulation for the Windows console to avoid wrapping of pull/merge's diffstats. ⦁ Git correctly passes port numbers to PuTTY's Plink Changes since Git-1.5.4-preview20080202 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.5.5. ⦁ core.autocrlf is enabled (true) by default. This means git converts to Windows line endings (CRLF) during checkout and converts to Unix line endings (LF) during commit. This is the right choice for cross-platform projects. If the conversion is not reversible, git warns the user. The installer warns about the new default before the installation starts. ⦁ The user does no longer have to "accept" the GPL but only needs to press "continue". ⦁ Installer deletes shell scripts that have been replaced by builtins. Upgrading should be safer. ⦁ Supports "git svn". Note that the performance might be below your expectation. Bugfixes ⦁ Newer ssh fixes connection failures (issue 74). ⦁ Comes with MSys-1.0.11-20071204. This should solve some "fork: resource unavailable" issues. ⦁ All DLLs are rebased to avoid problems with "fork" on Vista. Changes since Git-1.5.3.6-preview20071126 New Features ⦁ Comes with official git 1.5.4. ⦁ Some commands that are not yet suppoted on Windows are no longer included (see Known Issues above). ⦁ Release notes are displayed in separate window. ⦁ Includes qsort replacement to improve performance on Windows 2000. Bugfixes ⦁ Fixes invalid error message that setup.ini cannot be deleted on uninstall. ⦁ Setup tries harder to finish the installation and reports more detailed errors. ⦁ Vim's syntax highlighting is suitable for dark background. Changes since Git-1.5.3.5-preview20071114 New Features ⦁ Git is included in version 1.5.3.6. ⦁ Setup displays release notes. Bugfixes ⦁ pull/fetch/push in git-gui works. Note, there is no way for ssh to ask for a passphrase or for confirmation if you connect to an unknown host. So, you must have ssh set up to work without passphrase. Either you have a key without passphrase, or you started ssh-agent. You may also consider using PuTTY by pointing GIT_SSH to plink.exe and handle your ssh keys with Pageant. In this case you should include your login name in urls. You must also connect to an unknown host once from the command line and confirm the host key, before you can use it from git-gui. Changes since Git-1.5.3-preview20071027 New Features ⦁ Git is included in version 1.5.3.5. ⦁ Setup can be installed as normal user. ⦁ When installing as Administrator, all icons except the Quick Launch icon will be created for all users. ⦁ "git help user-manual" displays the user manual. Bugfixes ⦁ Git Bash works on Windows XP 64. Changes since Git-1.5.3-preview20071019 Bugfixes ⦁ The templates for a new repository are found. ⦁ The global configuration /etc/gitconfig is found. ⦁ Git Gui localization works. It falls back to English if a translation has errors. Changes since WinGit-0.2-alpha The history of the release notes stops here. Various new features and bugfixes are available since WinGit-0.2-alpha. Please check the git history of the msysgit project for details.