The easiest way is to do a google search for: Their website changes frequently and it can be difficult to find the download page. It’s some sort of managementeese language, understandable by managers but not by engineers - I shouldn’t be too rude, they are allowing people to use their stuff for free). Perforce provide various management and technological development tools (at least I think they do - their website is full of those phrases that I read, and although I understand every word, I don’t actually know what they are saying. The one I use is p4merge, this is a free package made by perforce and was recommended to me-I find it works well and is easy to use that said, I haven’t tried any others (there’s a lot of them out there). Generally, I don’t like the idea of two people working on the same file at the same time, but it can happen and this is how Git deals with it. The merge aspect allows the differences to be reconciled and merged back into a single file. This is usually required if two people have made changes to the same part of the same file. The difference and merge tool highlights differences between two versions of the same file. If you are tempted by the command line interface though, it will make life much easier. Install it if you want - it won’t make any difference (ha!) to what we do, and I won’t be using it. I’ve included it only for completeness it finishes the Git installation properly (the command line stuff) and provides a much better tool for comparing the differences between files and allowing these files to be merged together in a sensible way if a conflict exists. This section is entirely optional we don’t need a difference and merge tool for Bracket-Git (we’ll use Brackets directly). It’s hard to keep up with the current version, there is a new release every couple of months - it never looks any different though, not sure what all the changes are? - I recommend you just use the latest.It is very easy to get, just click download on the main page and then the big green download button on the download page (see Figure 3.11). I’m currently using version 7.5.7 (32 bit) for Windows. Notepad++ is available from the download page of the website. I recommend you install both Brackets and Notepad++ I’ve already covered the Brackets installation on a previous posting: getting and installing brackets (I cover the main points in appendix A). Unfortunately, we need to use the command line stuff to get everything set up (that’s what we’re doing now). I will just use Notepad++ when creating or editing files directly from the Git Bash command line (that thing you can see in Figure 3.10)-hopefully this won’t be too often, the whole point is to manage everything through Brackets and not have to bother with the command line stuff. I will still use Brackets for all the web development and I will also use it to manage Git and GitHub repositories. My next favourite is atom but this also has problems with Git, It’s difficult to set up as the default editor: under Windows, Git won’t wait for Atom to close before continuing again this is a problem for what we want to do. The only problem is that it doesn’t play nicely with the Git Bash command line specifically it won’t create a new file from the command line which is a bit of a problem for Git †1. I’m a big fan of Brackets I use it for all my web development stuff.
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