There is a local GUI for Windows that he may be talking about. I'm using it
right now.

IC,

Josh


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Marc Sabatella
<notifications@github.com>wrote:

> In meta/git-basics.md:
>
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> > +# Git Basics
> > +
> > +If you have not worked on projects that use Git, GitHub, and the Pull Request mechanism for collaborating, here is a brief overview of the basic concepts involved.  You will also find much more information on Git from [the free Git Book] (http://git-scm.com/book).  You will also find more specific information on the workflow employed by this particular project in [the Git Workflow document](git-workflow.md).
> > +
> > +## Initial Setup
> > +
> > +Before you begin, you will need to create an account on [GitHub](https://github.com).  You will also need to install [Git tools](http://git-scm.com/downloads) on your own machine.
> > +
> > +## Repositories
> > +
> > +A project has a main repository ("repo") stored on GitHub.  This is the public face of the project and is where the files accessible to everyone are stored.  It is used as the basis for other repositories that individual contributors may maintain, both on GitHub and on their own local machines.  It is customary to refer to this main repository as the "upstream" repo.
> > +
> > +This repo is what you will *read* from whenever you need to get the latest and greatest versions of the project files.  You will never probably write to this repo directly; only the project lead(s) will do this.
> > +
> > +When you first join a project, you start by visiting the main repo and pressing the `Fork` button to create your own copy of that repo.  This fork is *also* stored on GitHub.  You will then create a "clone" of your own fork by pressing the `Clone in Desktop` button while viewing your fork.  This copies your fork to your own machine.  The copy of the fork on GitHub is customarily called the "origin" repo, and the copy on your own machine might be referred to as the "local" repo.
>
> What GUI are you referring to? I was just talking about the web interface.
> I wasn't aware there even were other ways to fork. Or maybe you were
> referring to the clone, which I guess can be done via the command line or
> with a GUI tool in addition to simply doing it from the web site? I could
> add "or use git clone from your local machine" or something like that. I
> like mentioning some amount of implementation detail so people can
> correlate what they read here with what they might read in a git tutorial.
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