[Tutor] How to use Git from Windows PC for files on Solaris machine where Git cannot be installed?

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:28:59 -0500, boB Stepp writes:

>The main danger as I see it is that if I am not careful, then the code
>on the dev environment could diverge from the state of code on my
>Windows PC, i.e., I forgot to do the scp part. But when I am actively
>working on a section of code I always insert a few print statements
>(Py 2.4!) to verify I am getting what I should when I test it
>out--even if I don't have an actual problem yet. And so far this has
>immediately revealed those few instances so far when I forgot to save
>to the dev machine (Usually when someone has interrupted my workflow,
>a near constant occurrence at work.).

If you can get git running on your solaris development machine, you can
get out of the 'manually copying files' business. You can just ask git
for an up to date version of all your code, all your tests, all your
documentation -- all the files. :)