GIT for a Windows Idiot?

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GIT for a Windows Idiot? 2017-07-20 03:41:21 Post No.
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GIT for a Windows Idiot? Anonymous 2017-07-20 03:41:21 Post No. [Report]

Here's the situation.
>Never used GIT (or any other version control system) before.
>Minimal linux/unix experience. When I tried it, a lot of my hardware didn't work properly (razer and wacom stuff in particular) and there was a lot of software that I missed when using linux. Switching OSes for this will hopefully not be required.
>Am fairly familiar with the windows command prompt and writing batch files, if that will be in any way relevant.
>Want to figure out git so I can try to make a git repo to have version control on a simple website.
>Look up Git client options for windows. Settle on Git Extensions because its free.

>Fresh install.
>watch several tutorials.
>Create public & private SSH keys as directed.
>pick one (and then another, and another) small git repo at random to try to clone to my HDD.
>keep getting an error. Look up error, can't find anything about it.

I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to make this work for 2 days, and I'm getting nowhere. Clearly I'm an idiot, but can someone help me?

Anonymous 2017-07-20 03:42:08 Post No.349874
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>>349873
And then when I click clone I get this:

"git" clone -v --recurse-submodules --progress "[email protected]:spdr870/gitextensions.git" "H:/GIT/gitextensionstest/gitextensions"
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'H:/GIT/gitextensionstest/gitextensions"': Invalid argument
Done

Press Enter or Esc to close console...

Anonymous 2017-07-20 04:02:05 Post No.349881
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Anonymous 2017-07-20 04:02:05 Post No.349881 [Report]

You're inputting the URL wrong

Anonymous 2017-07-20 04:18:20 Post No.349887
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Anonymous 2017-07-20 04:18:20 Post No.349887 [Report]

>>349881
I used the SSH URL provided by Github. I don't think GitExtensions does HTTPS. But I'll try it, that might have been an outdated guide.

Here's what I got when I tried with the HTTPS link I grabbed from the github page.

"git" clone -v --recurse-submodules --progress "https://github.com/astranauta/5etools.git" "H:/GIT/astranauta/5etools/5etools"
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'H:/GIT/astranauta/5etools/5etools"': Invalid argument
Done

Press Enter or Esc to close console...

Same error.

Am I still putting it in wrong? what should I be putting in?

Anonymous 2017-07-20 04:25:59 Post No.349889
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>>349887
And, I did check folder permissions to see if that's why it "could not create work tree dir".

The folder has no restrictions on it. "Full Control" for "Everyone"

Anonymous 2017-07-20 05:25:10 Post No.349906
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>>349873
If all you want is version control on a simple website,

>hg init
>hg add *
>hg commit

Done.

Mercurial is Git, except without the religion.

Anonymous 2017-07-20 05:27:07 Post No.349909
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Anonymous 2017-07-20 05:27:07 Post No.349909 [Report]

>>349873
Here's a quick and easy guide to Mercurial: http://hginit.com/01.html

Anonymous 2017-07-20 05:44:16 Post No.349915
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Anonymous 2017-07-20 05:44:16 Post No.349915 [Report]

>>349906
>>349909
Wow. That looks way less complicated. Thanks!

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