Version control with git

I've used UberSVN and TortoiseSVN for version control before, but I figured this time I will join the rest of the world and start using git.

I've played around with git before, but never started using it for real.  Why? I don't know. I'm sort of an idiot that doesn't version control a lot of my software. I would use subversion for work stuff, but for my own personal projects, I just build the software outright.  Generally, I don't really take on giant projects to pursue in my free time.

Anyway, here are my notes for setting up git.

Download

Unpack and then navigate over to your powershell window. It doesn't matter if you are inside your virutalenv.

Initialize git:

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git init

Add the project:

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git add rebates

Commit the project with a message (-m):

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git commit -m 'Initial commit of rebate_info api'

If you don't already have a git repository online, make one.  When you have one, create an online 'origin' for the local project.

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git remote add origin https://github.com/jtarlecki/rebate_info.git

Check on the origin:

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git remote -v

origin  https://github.com/jtarlecki/rebate_info.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/jtarlecki/rebate_info.git (push)

Push the code to your git repository.

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> git push -u origin master

Magic.

Windows issues with using django inside a virtualenv

Following up on a post with starting from scratch with a Python install, I found that starting a django project (without any dependencies -- truly in a virtual environment) was a little more difficult than I expected.

Turns out that when I was another machine, I was using the global install of django rather than running the isolated one contained in my virtual environment.

When did I realize this? I tried to run the standard django-admin.py

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode> django-admin.py startprjoect rebates

And I got this:

django-admin.py : The term 'django-admin.py' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ django-admin.py startprjoect rebates
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (django-admin.py:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

What's the issue? Well, windows really doesn't know about the Python executable created in the Scripts folder when the virtual environment is created, so instead we have to tell it explicitly about the module ((django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> python -m django-admin startproject rebates) in which it should look to fire up python.  That and, we need to invoke the command with a leading python.  We also drop the .py from django-admin.py  Observe:

(django-jay) PS C:\Python27\home\jtarlecki\djcode\django-jay> python -m django-admin startproject rebates

Thanks stackoverflow.  Also, check out more info about in the python docs.