installing the git-all and publican fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:16:37PM -0500, Shajia Khan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was planning to contribute in some docs projects for students. While I was
>> visiting installation guide section I saw that I need to get familiar with
>> using 'git' if I want to contribute something to the installation guide. But
>> I was not sure how to install it. .
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_work_using_git#Setting_Up
>>
>> Besides I am using windows vista as my operating system. Will the new
>> program conflict with my existing operating system?
> 
> I have no idea whether or how git is supported on Windows.  You may
> want to download a free-as-in-beer virtualization program like
> VirtualBox, so you can install Fedora as a guest virtual machine and
> then use all the tools we provide as part of our platform.
> 
> If you find out information on using git on Windows, it would be
> awesome if you just turned that into a wiki page, since you'd be
> helping other contributors who come after you!

Never used it but http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ is apparently the 
recommended option. Start here.

Rahul