World: r3wp

Should be something like 
>> git clone <hostkit-url>

I use GUI though ....

I run git bash in the directory, and I get following:

[Krenzelok-:-KRENZELOK-PC] c:/!rebol/!R3/host-kit2 (master)
$ git clone http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit
Cloning into r3-hostkit...

fatal: http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit/info/refsnot found: 
did you run
 git update-server-info on the server?

[Krenzelok-:-KRENZELOK-PC] c:/!rebol/!R3/host-kit2 (master)
$

You shouldn't need to create and init a repository first.

In the above you are using an incorrect URL.

From the command line:
$ git clone http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit.git

From the explorer extension, choose a folder into which you want 
to place the hostkit folder. Right click, tortoisegit, clone, enter 
http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit.gitas url.

And you need neither an account on Github nor SSH set up for read-only 
access

OK, great hel, thank you ....

as for SSH, it uses its own SSH .... once synced, context menu item 
 git-clone changed to git-sync, and item TortoiseGit now contains 
many items. I gues for simple updates, I just use git-sync, or tortoiseGit/Pull 
or Fetch?

pull or fetch, yes

(no idea what the "sync" context menu does)

fetch

 just downloads the latest stuff into your local repository, but does 
 not actually touch your working copy (i.e. your files)

pull
 fetches and also updates your working copy

Ah, sync might actually try to upload something, or simply delete 
my own files?

TortoiseGit's Sync dialog is basically one dialog with both pull 
and push in it. Pretty easy if you need to do either or both.

IMO Sync is just a shortcut - green icon shows from master to client. 
In main context menu, I can seee - Sync, Commit, TortoiseGit in the 
main context menu git section

OK, thanks ... so - if all devs are going to use it, that's it? I 
can sync anytime, and have official RT endorsed R3 sources?

Pull, yes.

The URLs will probably change, but besides that, that's it.

Pekr, why you didn't choosed the download I was recomending and choosed 
the Tortoise? Btw.. isn't it just enough to go here: http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit
and click the big DOWNLOAD button?

Hard to see why there's so much stress over  the Windows tools - 
they all work quite well.  - TortoiseGit, Cygwin Git, msysgit, etc

I suppose it's the usual anxiety people have when asked to learn 
something new

but really, Git is not hard to get going under Windows

(-> "Source control", please.)

(Also, any replies to Adrian into "Source control", please.)

I installed TortoiseGit some time back, but Explorer started crashing 
soon after (XP x64 here) so I uninstalled it and the crashes stopped. 
I'll try it again.

Andreas, I'd like to assemble a doc for git github access. Just a 
rough draft, if I can get your comments.

http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/git.html-- just a starting point to 
add to

updated

The doc is being updated every few mins.

Ok, my part is done. Need someone to fill in the blanks. If you post 
the URLs here, I'll update the doc.

BTW, if we miss doing it today, it may need to wait until Thurs.

I collected my earlier notes here: http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Git_Notes

Has all the URLs.

Great

I would add a note that getting a Git version >= 1.6 is strong recommended.

(The CLI has improved quite a bit in 1.6.)

The official site for Git is http://www.git-scm.com/(if you want 
to add a link).

Has a list of download links on http://www.git-scm.com/download

related to the "CR/LF behavior", it it possible to get info about 
actual setting?

The actual settings are core.eol, core.safecrlf, and core.autocrlf

Documented in git-config(1) or here:
http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/git.html

Sorry, wrong link. Here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html

I suspect what the msysgit installer does if you choose the "use 
windows style line endings" option is setting core.autocrlf to true.

But I didn't yet confirm this. Someone who installed with this option 
could do so by looking at the output of "git config --list".

Andreas: How would I apply for commit access to the host-kit? I would 
like to be the Amiga-specific maintainer of course.

Just fork the repository and maintain your changes there.

And have Carl merge them over when he feels they are ready.

So Carl (REBOL Tech) would be the only ones doing merges to the baseline?