Adding my project to GitHub

Finally, I pushed my own test project on GitHub!!

Okay, I know it's not a big deal,  but it's my first step to use git more than just a logging tool in local machines.

Actually I was slightly scared by the complexity of git, especially its mystical jargon such as rebase, merge, cherry-pick and so on.

I thought, however, the git shouldn't be just used as a logging tool locally. Also, I wanted to use GitHub as the code repository which would be convenient to people who want to check my code. By upload my code to GitHub, I don't need to copy and paste it in the blog post. That's a better and smarter approach to share source code.

Oh, before I dived into GitHub, I found the following links helped a lot:
1. try Git, an interactive tutorial to give you a basic understanding;
2. Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line

Using Git as a working logger

I am working on a project, which is a experimental program coded and maintained by myself.

It is redundant and seems stupid to copy the whole working folder whenever I want to change the code to another version. Especially when the folder contains not only source code but some other documents or videos of testing results.

``I need a version control tool.'' The idea came to my mind.

``But I've never used or been familiar with any.'' The truth is cruel.

Then I thought of Git, a term which I might saw several times when surfing webpages.

Because the project I am working on is written and compiled with Visual Studio 2005, I started to search how to use Git with VS2005 and found Git Extensions.