From the course: Learning Software Version Control
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GUI clients and IDE integration
From the course: Learning Software Version Control
GUI clients and IDE integration
- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're switching from the command line to a graphical user interface. In this case, I will use Sourcetree, a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows and Mac. You can download it sourcetreeapp.com, and once you install on your system, it will be something like this. Sourcetree can work both with local and remote repositories. In this lesson, we're creating a local repository. To do so, select the New button and click on Create Local Repository. Define a destination path. Select the name for your repo, and remember to select the type, in this case, Mercurial. Hit on Create. And now we just created a Mercurial repo. Click on this new repository and we can start working on a repo. There are different ways to interact with these files but for example, I have Visual Studio Code working on this specific folder. We can start creating, for example, files. I'm going to create two different files,…
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