Short installation guide for Git with GitBash, SourceTree for a simple visual user interface and Git Staging View in Eclipse.
Git and GitBash
Download: https://gitforwindows.org
Install with defaults.
As there was no HOME environment variable set, my Git took some other HOME-like variable (like HOMEPATH, not sure), and this is a network share, so my Git performance was sometimes very poor.
To fix this, just set a HOME variable to your 'normal' profile folder:
Set a persistent environment variable from cmd.exe
setx HOME %USERPROFILE%
'set' sets your environment variable in your current shell only, persist it with 'setx'.
Another problem is, that the Git reporitory I tried to connect, has a SSL key signed by a non-public CA. This results to a "ssl pkix path validation failed" error.
To resolve this, I download the public certificate of the CA from webbrowser and add it to the truststore of Git.
Where is the cert store of git?
git config --system --list http.sslcainfo={PathToGit}/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
To add the non-public CA cert to Git cert store just open ca-bundle.crt and the downloaded certificate with an text editor and copy the content of the certificate to the ca-bundle.
Additional I configured the sslBackend to the Windows Networking Layer:
# use SChannel, the built-in Windows networking layer. This means that it will use the Windows certificate storage mechanism and you do not need to explicitly configure the curl CA storage mechanism. git config --global http.sslBackend schannel
Configure my user details:
git config --global user.name "Ingo Kaulbach" git config --global user.email "ingo.kaulbach@covestro.com"
Some Git commands for Git configuration:
git config --local --list git config --global --list git config --system --list git config --local --edit
Checkout / Clone of a project:
cd /path/to/my/workspace git clone https://{Username}:{PersonalAccessToken}@gitlab.myserver.biz/project/project.git
SourceTree
Download: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com
Current Version: 3.3.9 (Windows)
Install with default settings, without Mercurial.
Open /path/to/my/workspace/project.
Eclipse
Open Windows -> Perspective -> Open Perspective -> Other -> Git.
In Git Repositories View: Add an existing local Git Repository to this view and open /path/to/my/workspace/project.
To Commit and Push changes only use the Git Staging view!!!
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