I've got Git for Windows running, I'm not sure if it's supposed to function as a text editor though?
I think I installed it with the Vim editor, but in a Git Bash shell how do I create a file, such as webpage.html?
$ git add webpage.htmlcomes back as
fatal: pathspec 'webpage.html' did not match any filesbecause it tries to track a non-existing file.
I understand I can create a new file on the github.com interface, that's easy enough, I'm wondering if I can create a new file (like echo in cmd) and whether this file will actually be blank (echo in cmd creates non-blank files) and how I can write into that file from the git bash shell?
If not, I'm guessing I should just create a new file in windows explorer? Is that the norm...?
Edit
Wow, I was new to all this when I asked the above. No, Git Bash isn't a text editor, it's a Windows version of the git facility on Unix, and only handles the file versioning. git add, git rm, and other git commands just handle how the version control file manager handles the files and folders, and the only things it changes as a result are in a hidden folder named .git. Sorry if this has confused anyone.
I was confused at the time because, as the name suggests, Git Bash has bash shell commands shipped with it, not just git - e.g. ls (list files), mkdir (make new folder), and -- what I was looking for -- touch (make a new file or update timestamp on existing file), and echo (print text to the command line, or direct that text to a file).
I could have made my new file webpage.html with:
touch webpage.htmlThen written to it with:
echo "<!DOCTYPE html>"> webpage.htmlThen appended lines to it with:
echo "<html">> webpage.htmlecho "<head>">> webpage.htmland so on - but I don't think there's any text editor (according to this list of commands). See this thread for details of setting up a text editor with Git on Windows.
