Changes

Here there is no protection. it's your machine and you can break it as you wish, and whilst you will almost certainly get help on the discourse forum, this is not the sort of activity to indulge in twenty five minutes before your performance. It easy to become the essential technician beloved and feared in equal measure, but probably the first concept to learn is stable . . .  

Here there is no protection. it's your machine and you can break it as you wish, and whilst you will almost certainly get help on the discourse forum, this is not the sort of activity to indulge in twenty five minutes before your performance. It easy to become the essential technician beloved and feared in equal measure, but probably the first concept to learn is stable . . .  

Stable is the particular branch of code that is know good and behaves in a fashion that will match the documentation.

Stable is the particular branch of code that is know good and behaves in a fashion that will match the documentation.

This is your protection from your own misdeeds with code. In fact it is sensible to keep at least two ssd's with a known good stable version on so you can give the zynth a brain change and keep a separate ssd for your code projects, but if you trash a part of webconf, then you have little or no easy way onto the machine, and you will need your backup... You have been warned!

This is your protection from your own misdeeds with code. In fact it is sensible to keep at least two ssd's with a known good stable version on so you can give the zynth a brain change and keep a separate ssd for your code projects, but if you trash a part of webconf, then you have little or no easy way onto the machine, and you will need your backup... You have been warned!

===== So what is a branch? =====

So now we know how to switch between different branches of code how do we actually set up this new branch?  

It's a slightly different version of the code files that a programme running on the zynth keeps track of, allowing you to move around between your different versions and accept of reject changes you have made. This all operates under a programme of some renown and reputation called git, which was written by the same bloke who was largely responsible for the Linux code base, which is used to house the linux code base itself, you are building on the work of giants. ... and riban.

There are many, many introductions to git [https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git Getting started with git]  and it has a certain reputation for complexity, but it rigorously hangs on to any code it is asked to look after even thou' this can be a mixed blessing if you are messy as I am. But it can be operated from the command line but it's better to use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which makes it all push button, more on this later.

===== So what is an IDE ?=====

 

We could operate all of this using the commaand line and git commands, but unless you really want to, don't. Use an IDE.

Git also works peer to peer. This simply mean that rather than some of the older repository managers, every git instance running on a machine has a similar level of importance to every other, so you don't need a running central server to allow you to operate. That is a big feature that you don't appreciate until you DO work with the mega server in the middle with all it's associated limitations.

an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a collection of programmes that work together to ease the difficulties of acquiring, writing, modifying, testing, debugging code you write along with the possibility of many, many other functions you probably never considered. At the moment there is one that seems to be really sweeping the board with this ( yes, i know, emacs users, but I worked on pycharm and intellij and I know which I prefer out of the three).

an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a collection of programmes that work together to ease the difficulties of acquiring, writing, modifying, testing, debugging code you write along with the possibility of many, many other functions you probably never considered. At the moment there is one that seems to be really sweeping the board with this ( yes, i know, emacs users, but I worked on pycharm and intellij and I know which I prefer out of the three).