Earlier today when I got home from work I did my usual routine of updating to the most current development version of WordPress, made sure all other applications were up to date and opened up my code editor (Notepad++) to view and edit my theme files. Since I was wide awake I tried my hand at experimenting with Git and TortoiseGit on my main computer. One thing leads to another and I managed to delete my theme. I hadn’t made the last commit of adding my modified gallery shortcode.
Needless to say I am kicking myself pretty hard. What this means now is that I am starting over with a new repo but still with SVN and not Git. Git will be for my next project theme. The reason I am starting over is because I deleted the working copy and didn’t realize that I hadn’t added all the files and hadn’t made all the commits I needed to be in sync.
In about one week WordPress 3.5 will be launching and I am pretty stoked about it. The reason is because the way media is uploaded has improved. I feel this is a huge step in the right direction for WordPress development and adoption. People want to be able to share not only their stories but some want to share photos, videos and sometimes audio. The uploader is fairly easy to use and the user interface is elegantly designed.
But enough drooling about what is to come more about what I was trying to get across: patience. I have plenty of it and sometimes I feel I have too much of it. In one week I will make an attempt to rebuild all the code I lost and have it all finished by the time 3.5 launches. This should be manageable since I know what files I need this time after having tested file hierarchy with my previously deleted theme.
Today I created all the empty files and committed that to the repository so I can code away and make the final commits when I am satisfied with the code; that way I won’t have so many commits and a lot versions to go through down the line if I ever have to see why I did what I did.